[Dovecot] Hang on login since 1.2.4

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Tue Sep 1 19:31:40 EEST 2009


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:02 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
>   
>>>> Do you have example.com in auth_realms?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> no, auth_realms and auth_default_realm are both undefined.
>>>
>>> How do I populate auth_realms, when all my users are pulled from SQL?
>>>       
>> Forget it, I'm just gonna remove digest-md5 from the mech list - I 
>> figure that might fix my problem.
>>     
>
> Well, I think the auth_realm checking is pointless anyway. Removed it:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/3c171f5eee8d
>
> Of course, unless you have passwords saved as plaintext it wouldn't have
> worked anyway.
>
>   
Alright, well removing digest-md5 fixed the problem. I wonder if the 
auth_realm check was the cause of the hang, or maybe it's something else 
in the digest-md5 code.

In any case, thanks for the change - I'll do a test when 1.2.5 comes out.

Keep up the good work.
// Tom


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