smbpasswd file

[Uri Simchoni]

Samba only uses smbpasswd file if "passdb backend" is set to 
"smbpasswd". This setting does not support all the account information. 
That said, for basic setups it can work.

The latest version of samba reads smbpasswd file every time a session is 
established, in order to fetch the user's password and authenticate the 
user. It may also read the file in other scenarios which are 
application-specific (e.g. a VFS module requiring translation from 
Windows SID to UNIX uid, or looking at a file's access control list via 
the Windows security tab).

Each time the file is opened, it is also chmod'd to 0600.

HTH,
Uri.

On 12/03/2015 05:41 AM, rac8006 at aol.com wrote:
> I've run into another case where samba is causing disk to be written every minute or more.  Under what condition
> does samba read the /etc/samba/smbpasswd and do a chmod 600?
>
> Thanks
> RAC
>