[Dovecot] Errors in dovecot 1 beta7

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 10:49 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> about bug #:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154315
> 
> That patch adds a warning message, but it does not handle the error.
> The problem I have seen is that once a "BROKEN NSS IMPLEMENTATION"
> is detected, dovecot can not handle any login anymore.
> So, the only solution is to manually restart dovecot.

I don't really see how that can happen. When Dovecot gives that error
message, it kills the dovecot-auth process completely and it gets
restarted.

If you manually restart Dovecot it does pretty much the same thing
except it also restarts dovecot master process, but I don't see how that
would affect this at all.

> It would be nice to have dovecot handle the error and return an error or 
> something,
> so that other users still can login. The affected user should see an 
> error like: "try again
> later" or :bad password".

If restarting the whole dovecot-auth process doesn't fix it, then I
don't see how it could even be fixed any better.

I guess one possibility would be to just try the getpwnam() again if the
first time returns a failure, but I don't know if that works.

In any case I don't really even want to try to work around this. Better
would be to just get it really fixed where the bug is, or just not use
nss_ldap at all.
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