Bug#606350: sasl2-bin: "Too many open files" error with PAM - recovery with saslauthd restart

[Russ Allbery]

severity 606350 important
reassign 606350 winbind
retitle 606350 Possible file descriptor leak in pam_winbind
thanks

D G Teed <donald.teed at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> wrote:
>> D G Teed <donald.teed at gmail.com> writes:

>>> I also count 200 connections like this:

>>> unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     39854981
>>> /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe

>>> Most users are simply using port 25 and would not be authenticating,
>>> so I know these numbers cannot be current connections.

>> Looks like a file descriptor leak in pam_winbind.  I think saslauthd
>> isn't at fault here.

> Is there a way the bug report can shuffle along to becoming a winbind
> bug report, or should I re-report it, referring to this bug report?

I'll reassign it.  I wanted to see if anyone disagreed with me first.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>