Re: [Dovecot] v 1.1.13 / GSSAPI / Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:31 +0100, Jahnke-Zumbusch, Dirk wrote:

dovecot: Info: auth(default): gssapi(?,131.169.40.218): Obtaining credentials for imap@my.host.name dovecot: Error: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=3918, input bytes=0

1. I am puzzled about the credentials "imap@my.host.name" being obtained; shouldn't this be something like "imap/my.host.name@MY.REALM" ?

I don't know anything about Kerberos.

2. what does "Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server." mean? Who is trying to handshake with whom?

This anyway means that dovecot-auth process is hanging for over 30 seconds. Probably the "obtaining credentials" is taking for a long time. But why that is, I've no idea.

Although this does remind me that GSSAPI should be handled in auth-worker processes instead of the main dovecot-auth process..