Bug 4805 - smbd goes crazy with "Failed to find entry for user UTF-16LE" log messages
Summary: smbd goes crazy with "Failed to find entry for user UTF-16LE" log messages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.0
Classification: Unclassified
Component: File Services (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.24
Hardware: x64 Linux
: P3 critical
Target Milestone: none
Assignee: Samba Bugzilla Account
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2007-07-19 16:37 UTC by Karol Nowak
Modified: 2023-11-25 22:55 UTC (History)
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Description Karol Nowak 2007-07-19 16:37:00 UTC 
It's already happened to me a few times. Two smbd processes seem to be spinning endlessly, writing zounds of following messages to syslog:

Jul 19 21:59:43 omoikane PAM_smbpass[17882]: Failed to find entry for user UTF-16LE.

And before that a single:

Jul 19 21:59:43 omoikane PAM_smbpass[17882]: Failed to find entry for user nobody.

The only other computer in my network is a Windows 98 machine. This has started once "Network Neighbourhood" had been opened.

I run samba 3.0.24 on a 64-bit Gentoo box. Package version is -r3. You can see my smb.conf at http://kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/smb.conf.
Comment 1 Björn Jacke 2023-11-25 22:55:44 UTC 
closing, pam_smbpass has been removed quite a while ago.