On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:31 +0100, Jahnke-Zumbusch, Dirk wrote: > dovecot: Info: auth(default): gssapi(?,131.169.40.218): Obtaining > credentials for i...@my.host.name > dovecot: Error: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. > my pid=3918, input bytes=0 > > 1. I am puzzled about the credentials "i...@my.host.name" being obtained; > shouldn't this be > something like "imap/my.host.n...@my.realm" ?
I don't know anything about Kerberos. > 2. what does "Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server." mean? Who is > trying to > handshake with whom? This anyway means that dovecot-auth process is hanging for over 30 seconds. Probably the "obtaining credentials" is taking for a long time. But why that is, I've no idea. Although this does remind me that GSSAPI should be handled in auth-worker processes instead of the main dovecot-auth process..
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