[Samba] winbindd crashing -- how to auto-heal?

[Luca Olivetti]

El 3/9/18 a les 17:48, Rowland Penny via samba ha escrit:

>>
>> It doesn't make sense:
>>
>> 1) why should I need to run smbd if I'm not providing cifs services
>> to other computers?
> 
> What are you using the computer for then, it surely isn't for
> authentication, that is coming from the DC.

I'm using it for what the winbindd man page says:

"winbindd is a daemon that provides a number of services to the Name 
Service Switch capability found in most modern C libraries, to arbitrary 
applications via PAM and ntlm_auth and to Samba itself.

Even if winbind is not used for nsswitch, it still provides a service to 
smbd, ntlm_auth and the pam_winbind.so PAM module, by managing 
connections to domain controllers."


> 
>>
>> 2) why does winbindd work for many days even with smbd not running?
>> Shouldn't it just barf at startup or after a short wait if it really
>> needs smbd?
> 
> I am not saying winbind will not run by itself, it just really needs
> 'smbd' to be useful.

Uh? It's perfectly useful by itself to provide the services mentioned in 
its manpage.

> 
>>
>> In any case I prefer my plaster instead of running a service that I
>> don't need and could open the server to several vulnerabilities.
> 
> Then put up with winbind dying on a regular basis.

That's not because smbd is not running.


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