ldap saslauthd minor issue

[Igor Brezac]

Hmm...  Were you getting 'lak_bind() fail' messages in the (auth) syslog?
Did you specify ldap_auth_method in saslauthd.conf?

-Igor

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Kervin L. Pierre wrote:

> ok.
>
> well something else caused saslauthd to lose its connection to start
> searching as anonymous.  I'm sure I did not change the configuration,
> and restarting saslauthd fixed the problem.
>
>   --Kervin
>
> Igor Brezac wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Kervin L. Pierre wrote:
> >
> >
> >>If the ldap server goes offline temporarily, and saslauthd binds with a
> >>special user, when the ldap server gets back online, saslauthd tries to
> >>use anonymous instead of the priviledged user.
> >
> >
> > No.  "anonymous" in the code means whatever you passed as lak_bind_dn.
> >
> >
> >>Or so it looks like on my machine.
> >>
> >>So I guess whenever the ldap server is restarted saslauthd will need to
> >>be restarted as well?
> >>
> >
> >
> > You do not need to restart saslauthd.  saslauthd will reconnect when the
> > ldap server(s) comes back online.  I tested this quite extensively with
> > both auth methods.
> >
> > -Igor
> >
>
>
>

-- 
Igor