Saslauthd memory leak ?

[Igor Brezac]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Yann Rouillard wrote:

> Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 16:05 -0400, Igor Brezac a écrit :
>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Yann Rouillard wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> Any idea how to solve this problem ?
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide more info such as saslauthd version, saslauthd startup
>>>> options, etc?
>>>>
>>>
>>> saslauthd version 2.1.21
>>> launched with option -a pam
>>> OS: Solaris 9 release 9/04
>>>
>>
>> Your pam implementation is most like the reason for leak.  Which pam
>> module do you use?
>
> other   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
> other   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
> other   auth required           pam_unix_auth.so.1
>
> other   account requisite       pam_roles.so.1
> other   account required        pam_projects.so.1
> other   account required        pam_unix_account.so.1
>
> I will check if some patchs are available from Sun for this problem.
>
> Why are you sure the problem comes from pam ? This memory leak problem
> never showed up in other configuration ?

Do you have any other long running processes that use pam?  What is in 
your nsswitch.conf?

This is a known issue with certain pam implementations.

>
>> You can use saslauthd -n0, but this performs poorly
>> because saslauthd has to spawn a new process for each authentication.
>
> Thanks for the idea, I will try anyway if the performance impact is
> acceptable.
>

You can probably use saslauthd -a getpwent or -a shadow instead.

-- 
Igor