[Samba] winbind cache time

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Adam Clark wrote:

| http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2003-February/027095.html
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| Which confused me a bit.

Ignore that mail.  Out of date.

| Is the argument to "winbind cache time" in seconds?
| And what is the default value for this parameter?

yes.  it's in seconds.  Default is 5 minutes (300 seconds).

| With that in mind, how long after a password change can
| a user be guaranteed To be authenticated properly with ntlm_auth?

Winbindd does not cache passwords.  So the answer
really depends on your DC.  There was a Windows 2003 bug
where the DC would continue to authenticate the old password
for a period of time.






cheers, jerry
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