[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#606350: sasl2-bin: "Too many open files" error with PAM - recovery with saslauthd restart

[D G Teed]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> wrote:

>
> Looks like a file descriptor leak in pam_winbind.  I think saslauthd isn't
> at fault here.
>
>
I did a test today...  I noticed the number of fds had grown overnight by
20 to 40 per process.   I did a restart of winbind and looked at the fds
under
the saslauthd processes.  It didn't change.

Both winbind and saslauthd must be restarted as the workaround.
Restarting winbind closes only the streams reported as
/var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe .

Developers would likely expect this, but I mention it here in case it might
help others caught by the issue.
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