ldap saslauthd minor issue

[Kervin L. Pierre]

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
>