Re: how avoid logspam "pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody" ?

RolandK via samba <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:42:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.samba.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
thanks, but unfortunately that does not help

the issue does not seem to be related to process restart or whatever, i 
don't see pid of smbd process changing at all.

roland


Am 24.03.26 um 14:09 schrieb Matthias Kühne | Ellerhold 
Aktiengesellschaft via samba:

> Hey,
>
> try "loginctl enable-linger nobody"
>
> Have a nice day, Matthias.
>
> Am 24.03.26 um 14:03 schrieb RolandK via samba:
>> hello,
>>
>> we run samba on our server for serving iso-images to proxmox hosts,
>> and decreased echo_interval from 60 to 10 , for faster failure on hung
>> mount condition, when iso-server is down for maintenance.
>>
>> this is how the corresponding cifs mount on proxmox side looks like:
>>
>> //iso-images/iso-ablage on /mnt/pve/iso-images type cifs
>> (rw,relatime,vers=3.1.1,cache=strict,upcall_target=app,\
>> username=guest,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=10.0.0.10,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,soft,nounix,\
>>
>> mapposix,rsize=4194304,wsize=4194304,bsize=1048576,retrans=1,echo_interval=10,actimeo=1,closetimeo=1)
>>
>>
>> the corresponding smb.conf entry looks like this:
>>
>> [iso-ablage]
>>      browsable=yes
>>      public=yes
>>      writeable=no
>>      guest ok = yes
>>      guest only = yes
>>      force user = nobody
>>      path=/mnt/zfspool/iso-images
>>
>> the problem is, that we have way to much spam in iso-images server log
>> like this:
>>
>> #journalctl -u smbd -f
>> Feb 05 11:48:56 iso-images smbd[543100]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:48:57 iso-images smbd[543103]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:48:59 iso-images smbd[543181]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:01 iso-images smbd[543182]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:03 iso-images smbd[543183]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:06 iso-images smbd[543184]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:07 iso-images smbd[543185]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:08 iso-images smbd[543186]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:11 iso-images smbd[543187]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:12 iso-images smbd[543188]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:15 iso-images smbd[543189]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:16 iso-images smbd[543200]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:18 iso-images smbd[543217]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:20 iso-images smbd[543218]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:22 iso-images smbd[543219]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:25 iso-images smbd[543220]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:26 iso-images smbd[543221]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:29 iso-images smbd[543225]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:31 iso-images smbd[543226]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:33 iso-images smbd[543227]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>> Feb 05 11:49:35 iso-images smbd[543228]: pam_unix(samba:session):
>> session closed for user nobody
>>
>> log level = 0 does not seem to help
>>
>> samba version is 4.22.8+dfsg-0+deb13u1 from trixie-backports (debian)
>>
>> how can we get rid of this logspam ?
>>
>> regards
>> Roland
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