[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

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, the request falls
>> through to the authuserdb module.
>>
>> This simple idea works and required almost no programming, but I'd
>> like to know if there's a nicer way to do this.
>
>
> 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 connection requests will
> timeout because no more authdaemond processes are available.

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 simple way to
mix having a virtual shared folder setup with a separate PAM-based
authentication procedure.

Cheers,

-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>


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