Bug#758660: sasl2-bin: saslauthd "Memory buffer error"

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Wed Aug 20 20:06:58 UTC 2014


On 08/20/14 21:58 +0200, Martin Sebald wrote:
>So does the work around work anyway? It seems that I not fully understand what
>is going on. Anyway, if I restart saslauthd after the problem is there
>everything works right away like there was never a problem.

Yes, it should, since saslauthd spawns a new process (-n 0) with each
authentication attempt. The memory gets freed when the process ends even
though there's a memory leak. You'll hide the problem at the expense of
process setup/tear down overhead.

-- 
Dan White



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