mod_auth_pam patch

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Sun Apr 30 21:25:50 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 15:26 +0200, Bruno FLEISCH wrote:
> * The module caches both positive (i.e.: successful) and negative 
> authentication results. This improves performances on slow 
> authentication providers (NIS/YP or LDAP), and limit deny-of-service 
> attacks with bad credentials.
> 
> NB: The cache routines may be disabled by "undef-ing" the ENABLE_CACHE 
> macro in source file.

How do you flush the cache at runtime?

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