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

Rowland Penny via samba <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:04:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.samba.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:42:47 +0100
RolandK via samba <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

Your log messages have nothing to do with Samba as such, they are
coming from PAM.

Try reading this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/jqzjvi/stop_samba_from_spamming_varlogauthlog/

Rowland

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