Auth Policy Server
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Fri Jun 30 22:05:26 EEST 2017
> On June 30, 2017 at 9:49 PM Daniel Miller <dmiller at amfes.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've made a preliminary auth policy server in Perl - and it sort of
> works (mostly) - but I've got some questions on "proper" implementation.
>
> It appears the communication is HTTP based - is the intent to talk to a
> "proper" webserver, or is a simple dedicated daemon appropriate (which
> is what I made)?
>
> Should connections be maintained, or terminated after each response
> (which is my current setup)?
>
> If my implementation is correct, I may have found a bug, as I have some
> log entries like:
>
> Jun 30 08:24:20 bubba dovecot: imap-login: Warning: Auth connection
> closed with 1 pending requests (max 31 secs, pid=10253, EOF)
> Jun 30 08:24:20 bubba dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child
> 31631 killed with signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> Guidance would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Daniel
Hi!
First of all, which version are you running, and can you get a bt full backtrace of the crash?
Secondly, the endpoint does not need to be a proper web server, you can compare with https://github.com/PowerDNS/weakforced which is another implementation of auth policy server.
Aki
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