[Dovecot] Authentication cache, failure to login after changed password

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Tue Jun 16 11:25:40 EEST 2009


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Tom Sommer wrote:
>
>>>>> # TTL for negative hits (user not found). 0 disables caching them
>>>>> completely.
>>>>> #auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600
>>>>>
>>>>> I suppose there could be a new setting to use auth cache only for
>>>>> successful lookups..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I don't understand why it would cache negative lookups if I set
>>>> negative_ttl to 0, even if the setting isn't suppose to work that way
>>>> currently, it should.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. Maybe.
>>>
>> This is still a rather big support issue for us. We have customers who
>> are essentially blocked from their accounts because of the above auth
>> cache "functionality". Is this something you are willing to look at?
> Already done in 1.2.rc5.
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/8a23ab43132a
Brilliant, thank you so much.


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