>>>>> On 18 Nov 2008 at 21:11 "AO" == Ann Onemouse writes: >> testsaslauthd -u relay -p 1234 - works or not? I think that current >> cyrus-sasl >> is broken in this place. AO> It does not work for me with "pam". In order to get the testsaslauthd AO> command to work against regular shell accounts, I have to use the AO> "shadow" mechanism, either by setting it in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd, AO> or on the command-line. >> "-a pam -n 0" - works fine. >> "-a pam" - works for 3-4 times, than stop working: >> ... >> 1569 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov17 0:00 [saslauthd] >> <defunct> >> >> Do you confirm same behavior of saslauthd? AO> I'm afraid I cannot. On my system (CentOS 5.2 and cyrus-sasl RPM AO> 2.1.22.4), the testsaslauthd command behaves consistently, and does AO> not cause the server process to go defunct, no matter how many times I AO> run it (I tried 100 times). Yes, "shadow" mechanism works pretty well, but my problem description affects only "pam" mechanism. If someone can run test that i described and confirm problem, i can report it into bugzilla with "clear soul" ;) -- vvk