From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: thousands of NTLM requests per day
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436100995.20170228193004@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bi4bbc1qpuhhp2pquc9ui5kfp74jj9n42b@4ax.com>
Greetings, Andrew Schulman!
> I got a call from our domain admins, asking me if I knew why my Windows 7
> host would be sending many thousands of NTLMv1 authentication requests per
> day. I don't know, and we're still trying to find out which application is
> doing that, but here's what I wonder:
> Could Cygwin be responsible for the authentication requests? I wonder about
> this because Cygwin now queries Windows for user and group information that
> used to be kept statically in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
Do you use cygserver ? If not, try to set it up, it should help with domain
information caching. If the problem you observe is caused by Cygwin activity,
you should see a decrease in such requests.
> I don't know much about this. Sorry if it's an obtuse question. Any general
> information would be appreciated.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 19:28:37
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-28 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-28 15:17 Andrew Schulman
2017-02-28 16:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2017-03-03 14:50 ` Andrew Schulman
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