24 Jun
2009
24 Jun
'09
9:21 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:45 +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
I have been playing with some exotic authentication scheme with Dovecot and PAM. That involves sending really large base64 encoded data as the IMAP password, and I have hit a line limit in Dovecot, with AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH set to 1024. .. I had to make the patch attached below to get my authentication working. I can live with this local patch, but given the much more liberal limits of MAX_INBUF_SIZE at 4096 makes we wonder if this 1024 limit on AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH could not be a bug. Or is there a security concern at using more than 1kB?
There's no real reason to keep it at 1 kB. I probably didn't even think about it much when I added it. I increased it to 8192 now.