[Dovecot] Auth worker max line size

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 23 22:00:10 EEST 2012


On 16.8.2012, at 4.07, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> 38 month ago, I submitted a patch to increase
> AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH to use exotic authentication scheme (see
> message below). The patch was accepted, but now I upgrade to dovecot
> 2.1.7,  I face the same problem with MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE. I had to
> increase it from 1024 to 4096. 
> 
> Is it safe to do so? Would such a change be accepted upstream? The patch
> is below.

Couldn't you change the client to use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN command instead? The buffer wouldn't be a problem then..




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