[Dovecot] Config questionsabout various login parms

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.3.2007, at 19.33, Mike Brudenell wrote:

> It was this thread that I'm thinking of:
>     http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-January/018398.html
>
> I think the eventual conclusion was that it was PAM -> crypt() ->  
> some sort of hardware crypting device.

Oh. That can also be prevented nowadays by using passdb pam { args =  
blocking=yes } because then the PAM lookups are done in dovecot-auth  
worker processes where login processes don't connect directly.

> My main fear is that I get LDAP working fine without SSL, then turn  
> it on and find I'm stuffed by only having a maximum of 256 SSL  
> connections at a time.  (If anyone can reassure me this won't be  
> the case?  I'm running under Solaris 10 -- on a SPARC box at present.)

If you're using LDAP and something else than CRYPT-passwords then I  
don't think there's even a possibility of it breaking with you.


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