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[Sascha Wilde]

Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de> writes:

> Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de> writes:
>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> So I guess what is needed is a new userdb backend which is explicitly
>>>> runs an arbitrary external program to get the user data (instead of
>>>> caching the passdb results).
>>>
>>> Right. Perhaps the passdb checkpassword code could be used as userdb
>>> too, just with an added extra variable specifying if it's a passdb or
>>> a userdb lookup.
>>
>> I just started to work on this feature
>
> I have made a first rough sketch of the userdb-checkpassword back end,
> basically by copying the code of the passdb version.  Now I stumbled
> upon the note "FIXME: if we ever do some other kind of forking, this
> needs fixing" in sigchld_handler().
>
> The only problem I experienced is, that the handler dosen't return, when
> the signaling child wasn't listed in the modules clients -- but simply
> replacing the continue with return like this:

Please ignore this statement -- wrong test, wrong result ...

The proposed change is not sufficient, the only reason why my test
didn't fail was, that I used an other passdb backend, so that my userdb
backend was the only one registering a SIGCHILD handler...

cheers
sascha
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