[Dovecot] Authentication cache, failure to login after changed password

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Tom Sommer wrote:

>>>> # TTL for negative hits (user not found). 0 disables caching them  
>>>> completely.
>>>> #auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600
>>>>
>>>> I suppose there could be a new setting to use auth cache only for
>>>> successful lookups..
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't understand why it would cache negative lookups if I set
>>> negative_ttl to 0, even if the setting isn't suppose to work that  
>>> way
>>> currently, it should.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm. Maybe.
>>
> This is still a rather big support issue for us. We have customers who
> are essentially blocked from their accounts because of the above auth
> cache "functionality". Is this something you are willing to look at?

Already done in 1.2.rc5. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/8a23ab43132a

> It's getting old to have to restart Dovecot when it happens :)

SIGHUP to dovecot-auth is enough.