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Is there any way to verify whether PAM is installed correctly? (Fedora Core 6)

- On another note, it says to change PasswdAuthenticationViaKBDInit yes but it doesn't say if it should be set to no I'm on 4.3 but it sounds rather confusing(aborted edit?)

uid set to greater than or equal to 500

you say "That the uid is set to greater than or equal to 500. Not helpful if your uid in LDAP is 101 for instance. So change this to something like:" but into Samba Setup [1] uid's start at 550

dn: sambaDomainName=<YOURWORKGROUP>,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: sambaDomain
objectclass: sambaUnixIdPool
objectclass: top
sambaDomainName: <YOURWORKGROUP>
sambaSID: S-1-5-21-1803520230-1543781662-649387223
uidNumber: 550
gidNumber: 550

so your suggestion is not applicable if one follows literally what in that document, isn't it? further, administrator uid is suggested to be 500 (windows standard), so i think that letting 500 is the best choiche.