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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