On 26 Apr 2016, at 21:09, Joseph Tam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> - auth: Auth cache is now disabled passwd-file. It was unnecessary and >> it broke %variables in extra fields. > > So settings like > > auth_cache_size = 65536 > auth_cache_ttl = 86400 > auth_cache_negative_ttl = 600 > > are ignored/useless, and passwd-file auth lookups always results in file read > operation?
passwd-files are always read fully into memory. The file's timestamp is checked once a second to see if anything has changed and if so the file is reloaded. So basically they're already cached with perfect TTL settings.
