[Samba] winbindd caching bug?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Barry Rowlingson wrote:

| I've had weird problems getting winbind authentication
| working on my site. I eventually cured them by sticking -n
| on winbindd, thus turning off the caching.
...
|
|  Here's what happened:
|
| "getent passwd fred" showed fred's passwd file entry just fine.
| then
| "ssh fred at localhost" gave permission denied and disconnected.
| then
| "getent passwd fred" returned nothing (except the next prompt).
|
| restarting winbindd and then running 'getent passwd
| fred' shows fred's  passwd file entry again, and we're
| back to square one as above.
|
| This seemed to be infinitely repeatable.
|
| Turning off the caching with -n and it all works.
| "getent passwd fred",  "ssh fred at localhost", all work, no matter
| how many times I do it.

What version of Samba ?  Could you send me the level 10
log from winbindd ?




cheers, jerry
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