saslauthd performance anxiety
Paul M Fleming
pfleming at siumed.edu
Thu Jan 9 16:35:39 EST 2003
Correct..
John Alton Tamplin wrote:
>
> Paul M Fleming wrote:
>
> >Timing out the passwords is simple ( I think ) I would store the time
> >when the entry is added and force a reauth if the password has been
> >cached longer than a timeout (for example one hour ). That forces a
> >reauth at least every timeout period of time. If an entry isn't in the
> >cache (or if it is different the entry would be removed and ) a reauth
> >would be forced. Every successfull auth would be added to the cache.
> >
> >
> Also, if the authentication against the cached entry fails it should be
> refreshed and tried against the new one, so that if the user changes
> their password the caching is transparent.
>
> --
> John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator
> Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
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