On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Kervin L. Pierre wrote: > > If the ldap server goes offline temporarily, and saslauthd binds with a > special user, when the ldap server gets back online, saslauthd tries to > use anonymous instead of the priviledged user.
No. "anonymous" in the code means whatever you passed as lak_bind_dn. > Or so it looks like on my machine. > > So I guess whenever the ldap server is restarted saslauthd will need to > be restarted as well? > You do not need to restart saslauthd. saslauthd will reconnect when the ldap server(s) comes back online. I tested this quite extensively with both auth methods. -Igor