Some comments as the author of the Wine code that makes use of ntlm_auth here.
First and foremost, ntlm_auth works just fine without winbindd running in client mode. This is the mode that most of the Wine users that need NTLM auth will use. A good use case would be using Outlook against Exchange with crypto enabled. winbindd is only needed if the user is trying to authenticate users, for example for running RPC servers. That said, most Wine users probably run games and not Outlook, so they never use NTLM (there's games and IM clients that support NTLM, but they're probably a minority). I don't have the impression that the average Ubuntu user is running in an office environment. So while in my opinion the real cause for the breakage is that installing winbindd fiddles with your PAM settings, I guess the best fix that'll hurt the least number of users is to downgrade winbind from Recommends to Suggests. I find it regrettable that GUI package managers automagically pull in Recommends and never mention Suggests, but that is probably done to make life easier for the average user as well. To sum up, while the view that ntlm_auth is useless without winbind is wrong, I guess the suggested fix is the least pain for the least amount of work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302148 Title: Installing wine starts winbindd as a daemon -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
