[Samba] winbindd and /tmp/.winbind/pipe

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Nathan R. Valentine" wrote:
> 
> I've seen some mention of winbindd getting into a state where it cannot
> connect to the pipe in /tmp/.winbind and, if the directory is removed,
> will not create /tmp/.winbind/pipe. I've also started seeing this
> behavior. I've looked at the code and I cannot figure out why this
> happens.
> 
> Does anyone out there know why this is happening? How to work around it?

Check the permissions on the /tmp/.winbind dir.  They must be root.root
0755

And your /tmp must be +t

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