On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:57:48AM +0200, Degrande_Samuel wrote:
> I tried to track it and found the memory leak to be IN the solaris
> pam modules. After some talks with other people, it seems that
> every pam implementation (Solaris, Linux...) suffers from memory leak, 
> and everybody tell to use a forked process to proceed the pam
> authentication. What do you think of that ? I could propose you
> a rlm_pam module which fork a new child every <given_number> 
> authentication request.

Yeah, every PAM module out there will leak all the **resp pointers.
This was underspecified by the PAM people.

We should come up with a workaround for this.

I'm surprised you'd be doing something in PAM that you can't do
"natively" with freeradius modules.

/fc

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