saslpasswd2 and saslauthd restart

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Mon Nov 18 10:34:05 EST 2013


On 11/16/13 15:28 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote:
>Hi all :-)
>
>I've a sasl authentication (sasldb) that works good.
>
>I discover that if I change the password of an user (with saslpasswd2),
>using testsaslauthd, works fine. But when an email client try to send an
>email, its can ONLY use old password (new and correct password is not
>correct).

What saslauthd backend are you using, and what is your sasl config?

If your saslauthd backend is not sasldb, then you may receive
inconsistent authentication results from clients based on the sasl
mechanism used.

>So, only after a restart of saslauthd daemon, I have to update password of
>client email and whole system works fine.

You may be utilizing saslauthd's caching feature. If so, remove '-c' from
its command line options to disable.

-- 
Dan White


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