mysql auxprop - how did you do it ?

[Simon Matter]

> tom at bryntez.com wrote:
>
>> A simple (maybee) question from an ordinary mailserver admin.....
>>
>> I was following Luc's howto when we configured our new mailserver
>> last week - and we compiled sasl according to his howto like this:
>>
>> Sasl 2.1.15
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ./configure \
>> --enable-anon \
>> --enable-plain \
>> --enable-login \
>> --disable-krb4 \
>> --with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd \
>> --with-pam \
>> --with-dblib=berkeley \
>> --with-bdb-libdir=/usr/local/bdb/lib \
>> --with-bdb-incdir=/usr/local/bdb/include \
>> --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
>> --with-plugindir=/usr/local/lib/sasl2
>>
>> Authentication are done against mysql with pam-mysql and it works
>> fine, but It turnes out that saslauthd are leaking memory faster than
>
> Its actually PAM which is leaking memory.  You might be able to work
> around this problem by adding '-n 0' to your saslatuhd command line.
>

To be precise, it's a problem of pam_mysql here. Other PAM modules like
ldap work perfect with saslauthd without leaking.