[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-03 Thread Johnny Lam
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: The script takes an "AUTH" request, checks the username/password using the "chkpw_pam" program, then makes a separate connection to authdaemond to make a "PRE" request to return the account data. Since authProg simply sends "FAIL" for a "PRE" request

[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Johnny Lam writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: The script takes an "AUTH" request, checks the username/password using the "chkpw_pam" program, then makes a separate connection to authdaemond to make a "PRE" request to return the account data. Since authProg simply sends "FAIL

[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-03 Thread Johnny Lam
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: There's one potential problem with this. The default configuration setting runs 5 authdaemond processes. You get five logins come in at the same time. You turn around and reconnect to authdaemond, five times. Your connectio

[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Johnny Lam writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: There's one potential problem with this. The default configuration setting runs 5 authdaemond processes. You get five logins come in at the same time. You turn around and reconnect to authdaemond, five t

[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-04 Thread Johnny Lam
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Johnny Lam writes: Yes, that is true. I forgot to mention that I had doubled the default number of authdaemond processes that are started from 5 to 10. Despite the increased resource usage, I'm pleased that there was a sim

[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

2005-12-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Johnny Lam writes: Increasing the number of daemon processes does not totally eliminate the problem, it only makes it less likely to occur. You trimmed the question in my last post that essentially asked if this same problem can occur with a default courier-authlib setup. In a default cour