[Dovecot] Bug: auth_cache breaks master password feature

[Chris Wakelin]

Bill Boebel wrote:
> When you set auth_cache_size to a value greater than zero, it breaks
> the master password feature in Dovecot.  It appears that during a
> cache hit, Dovecot attempts to query the userdb for use the master
> user's home directory and other settings, rather than querying for
> the userdb settings of the user that the master was trying to log in
> for... causing the login to fail.
> 
> Perhaps caching the userdb settings in addition to the passdb
> settings (since that is on the TODO list) would indirectly fix this
> problem.
> 
> Bill
> 

Yes, I think I came to that conclusion too. It possibly also breaks
proxying, or maybe only when you have more than one passdb defined. Hmm
more testing required ...

Chris

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