getent passwd timeouts on samba 3.5.1

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:24:02PM -0700, Nagaraj Shyam wrote:
> 
> Did the "enumerate" approach have to do with starting with a flat
> newline delimited passwd file J, old ideas die hard. 

Indeed. Google has an interesting fix for this. I'll
check if it's been published.

> It is either a sequential search or enumerate for this case.  


> There is no need to enumerate all users, however if a new user that the
> server has never seen before comes in we should be able to getpwent()
> for the particular user 

getpwent() is an enumeration function. In order to get the specific
entry for a particular user, you need getpwnam(), not getpwent().

>  and this does not work reliably all the time
> either when idmap backend is ldap and we cold start from nothing in the
> ldap idmap db, i.e. winbind has to generate the mapping and stick it
> into ldap.

I still don't see why you need to do an enumeration for a new
user. A getpwnam() call on the specific name is all you need
to verify if a new user exists.

What specific application is making the getpwent() call ? Why is it
doing this ?

Jeremy.