diff dovecot-example.conf @ 5121:cf996f8e9c89 HEAD

Added blocking=yes to PAM passdb to use auth workers instead of forking a new process for each lookup.
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:41:07 +0200
parents 176c28ad604c
children 419b206fd10c
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--- a/dovecot-example.conf	Mon Feb 12 23:07:42 2007 +0200
+++ b/dovecot-example.conf	Mon Feb 12 23:41:07 2007 +0200
@@ -780,7 +780,12 @@
   # authentication to actually work.
   # http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM
   passdb pam {
-    #  [session=yes] [setcred=yes] [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>]
+    # [blocking=yes] [session=yes] [setcred=yes]
+    # [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>]
+    #
+    # By default a new process is forked from dovecot-auth for each PAM lookup.
+    # Setting blocking=yes uses the alternative way: dovecot-auth worker
+    # processes do the PAM lookups.
     #
     # session=yes makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some
     # PAM plugins need this to work, such as pam_mkhomedir.