cyrus imap + pam

[Etienne Goyer]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:13:24PM -0400, Michael Bacon wrote:
> We, however, kept running into problems with saslauthd.  The gssapi 
> saslauthd was crashing on us, and the PAM saslauthd module did some things 
> that broke the gssapi PAM module we wanted to use.  After a while of 
> hacking on it trying to get it to behave, we just wrote pam support back 
> into the thing.  I understand that the saslauthd in SASL 2.1.13 has many 
> improvements, so this may be dated, but we've had much better luck with the 
> direct pam support than we did with  saslauthd.

According to the ChangeLog for cyrus-sasl-2.1.13, a memory/file
descriptor leak had been fixed as of 2003-03-06.  Could the problem you
mention be caused by these bug ?  I am worried because we will need to
use saslauthd + gssapi and are expecting a pretty high load (a few
thousands of connections per hour).  If not, did you pinned down the
cause ?



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