"Stephen" == Stephen Blackwell <stephenmac98@gmail.com> writes:
Stephen> I want to disable the time penalty for dovecot imap Stephen> authentication. When receiving a valid user-password combo Stephen> the server responds in .04 seconds. When I send in an invalid Stephen> comination it will either respond in 1.544 or 2.044 seconds Stephen> += .002
Stephen> I am using dovecot to test a program that sends a login Stephen> request to a server and processes the response. I want to be Stephen> able to send a series of valid and invalid login attempts.
Stephen> The issue is that with the 2 seconds delay for a bad login Stephen> attempt, the tests are too slow to run in production
Why are you running tests on production? Hmm?
Stephen> I can see that the delay is defined in auth-penalty.h Is Stephen> there a way, in the config file, to set Stephen> AUTH_PENALTY_INIT_SECS = 0, or any other way to remove the Stephen> time delay for an invalid login.
Take a look at this page:
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Penalty
but maybe you can put your test IP into the list of trusted networks?
John