pdb API and auth.c

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:14:50PM -0700, Steve Holstead wrote:
> 
> I managed to create and plugin my own database backend. It works fine, 
> however I noticed that when an invalid combination of ID/PASSWD is 
> recieved, the auth_methods try 10 times before giving up. I noticed 
> that when I add an auth methods = "sam" in the smb.conf file the attempts 
> reduce to 5 times(ie. eliminating guest).
> 
> Why does this happen? I an concerned about my passdb backend getting 
> called soo many times with one invalid password.

Can you catch the events with gdb and send in stack backtraces
(compiled with -g) so we can spot all the specific code paths ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.