Re: question re. credential caching by saslauthd

Dan White <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.cyrus.sasl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/02/13 23:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>Dan White wrote:
>>On 03/02/13 21:26 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>- what's the default setting for the cache timeout?
>>>
>>>- is there a way to flush the credentials cache?
>>
>>See the manpage for saslauthd, specifically the '-c' and '-t' options.
>>
>>The default timeout is:
>>
>>saslauthd/cache.h:#define CACHE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT           28800
>
>yup.. saw the man page, thanks for pointing out the default - can I 
>assume that's in seconds?

Yes.

>>Restarting saslauthd should flush its cache.
>>
>
>That's a critical piece of info.
>>To better understand the scope of the problem, try trouble shooting with
>>imtest, smtptest, testsaslauthd (with '-s smtp', and '-s imap'), and
>>pamtester.
>>
>
>Which I had thought to do testsaslauthd differentially with -s smtp 
>and -s imap - to see if they gave different responses.  Thanks for 
>the pointers to the other tools!

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Dan White
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