Package: nslcd
Version: 0.9.6-3
Severity: minor
I am seeing relatively frequent entries of this form in syslog:
May 24 03:04:23 darkstar nslcd[1187]: [3c9869] <passwd="*"> request denied
by validnames option
While I am uncertain as to what causes this, at one point it appeared to
be associated with tab completion at a shell prompt. (At the same time,
however, I can't reproduce this reliably that way.)
I claim ignorance as to why this request occurs (is this really supposed
to return a list of all users?) and it is probably not nslcd that is
responsible for it in the first place. But given that this request comes
up fairly often, and does not appear to be the result of a
misconfiguration, it would be helpful to have a way of keeping this
noise out of the log. The "*" request could be specifically ignored,
while continuing to log other instances of failed validnames matching.
(Incidentally, "nss_disable_enumeration yes" does not address this.)
