[PATCH] nsswitch: Don't enumerate all domains with wbinfo -u|-g.

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Jul 18 00:45:55 MDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:28:23PM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> By default wbinfo -u|-g should only enumerate the domain winbindd is
> joined to. The command can be harmfull if you have e.g. 30 domains and
> 700k users. Then the parent will collect all information and the
> oom-killer will kill winbind. As we still want to support it, you can
> enable it the old behaviour with wbinfo --domain='*' -u. This is
> a measure that sysadmins don't shoot themself.

+1

Volker

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