[courier-users] Re: Fun with authpipe

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Johnny Lam writes:
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>> 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=20
>>> reconnect to authdaemond, five times. Your connection requests will=20
>>> timeout because no more authdaemond processes are available.
>>
>>
>> Yes, that is true. I forgot to mention that I had doubled the default=
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>> number of authdaemond processes that are started from 5 to 10. =20
>> Despite the increased resource usage, I'm pleased that there was a=20
>> simple way to mix having a virtual shared folder setup with a separate=
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>> PAM-based authentication procedure.
>=20
>=20
> Replace =93five=94 with =93ten=94, in the given example.

I'm not sure I understand the point you're making, possibly due to my=20
misunderstanding how authdaemond works. I thought that the number of=20
child authdaemond processes that were started determined the number of=20
simultaneous login attempts that could be handled, e.g., if daemons=3D5,=20
then one could handle only 5 simultaneous login attempts and no more --=20
additional login attempts would time out and fail. Is this correct? If=20
this is not right, could you explain the relationship between the=20
"daemons" setting and the simultaneous login attempts?

Thanks,

-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>


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