ldap saslauthd minor issue

[Igor Brezac]

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