R: [Samba] howwinbind cache time works

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Gianluca,

> So cache time will start some kind of job and lowering it 
> too much would pose some stressing on servers and network ?

Yup.  The cache is used for things like user and group
enumeration, name2sid conversions, etc....

> what would a reasonable value for that param ?

Most of this information is static and rarely changes.
IIRC, the default in current releases is 15 minutes.
Unless you rename users/groups frequently, the default
should be fine although it can be useful at much higher
cache timeouts.

> Actually I've set it at 3600, but as users are blaming for 
> new password to be accepted too slowly...

You mean the login is slow?  I'd tail a level 10 winbindd log
during login to find the delay.

> I was planning to  lower it at 60... Would it be advisable ?

No.  Much too low IMO.





cheers, jerry
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