saslauthd performance anxiety

[Paul M Fleming]

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. 



Jure Pecar wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:45:41 -0600
> Paul M Fleming <pfleming at siumed.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Related to this thread... I am considering writing a generic cache layer
> > into saslauthd to lessen the load on the backend auth mechanism. My idea
> > is to implement a hash table in shared memory and use that to cache the
> > userid,password etc with a timeout. This should lighten the load ..
> > Comments? Ideas? Suggestions??
> 
> That would be handy, sure. Just think of some smart way to timeout the
> cached passwords ... or some feedback mechanism that the password has
> recently changed ...
> 
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> 
> Jure Pecar