[Samba] winbindd running amok

[Bernd Schubert]

On Friday 06 July 2007 21:41:54 Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > Hello Rune,
> >
> > On Friday 06 July 2007 20:41:05 Rune Tønnesen wrote:
> >> Bernd Schubert skrev:
> >>> Hi,
> >>
> >> Hi Bernd
> >>
> >> mc (Midnight Commander) most likely caches usernames and groups. mc
> >> needs the usernames when tje user wants to change ownership of files and
> >> directories. You can properly get the same winbindd reaction from getent
> >> passwd
> >
> > thanks a lot for your really super fast help. Running 'getent passwd'
> > takes about 10s-40s, which is ok I think for 50000 entries. But mc keeps
> > winbindd busy for at least 5-10 min, which is rather critical. This
> > efficiently prevents other logins to this system at all. Well, mc is not
> > the big deal, but our customer has experienced quite a lot problems in
> > the past and I'm afraid they are doing something (don't know what), that
> > does the same as mc.
>
> Enumerating users and group is *always* a bad thing.
> I'd recommend first disabling that.

Sorry, don't understand what you mean. Disabling user and group caching of mc?


Thanks,
Bernd

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Bernd Schubert
Q-Leap Networks GmbH