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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: thousands of NTLM requests per day
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bi4bbc1qpuhhp2pquc9ui5kfp74jj9n42b@4ax.com> (raw)

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.

I don't know much about this. Sorry if it's an obtuse question. Any general
information would be appreciated.

Andrew


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-28 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-28 15:17 Andrew Schulman [this message]
2017-02-28 16:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-03 14:50   ` Andrew Schulman

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