[Samba] samba log level: ldap log file remains empty

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 06:41:57 +0000
"Hoefle, Marco \(Avnet Silica\) via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> Hi Kees,
> this is not an LDAP issue. I have a  Samba Fileserver joined to the
> Samba Domain controller and all 15 Minutes I get this on the Domain
> controller log:
> 
>   | Auth: [Kerberos KDC,ENC-TS Pre-authentication] user
> [(null)]\[SAMBA-SRV$@XXX.XFAE] at [Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:58:47.044307
> CET] 
> 
> I tried this on the AD side:
> 
> [kdcdefaults]
>     max_life = 10h       # Default ticket lifetime
>     max_renewable_life = 7d
> 
> But I still see every ~15 Minutes the KDC authentication log. If I
> cannot have the LDAP requests in a separate log, with the samba
> version I use, than I would like to have as little events in the main
> log as possible. Do you have an idea where this 15 minute interval
> comes from?
> 

Yes, I know where it comes from:

You ;-)

You are the one that is asking for 'auth' to be logged by
'log_authentication_event_human_readable' in 'auth/auth_log.c'

It is just an artefact of logging and isn't, in my opinion, worth
worrying about.

Rowland