On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Mike McCauley wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:37, Forbes Mike wrote:
> > Do you have more specifics on the PAM leak as it looks like MIke did some
> > extensive testing? I would like to pursue this with RedHat and any
> > information would be helpful. Is this a problem specific to redhat or
> > just pam in general?
>
> I inspected the perl PAM interface closely for potenial leaks, then wrote a
> small test program that would do large numbers of authentications. I found
> that
>
> new Authen::PAM
> does not leak (it calls pam_start)
>
> but that pam_authenticate does leak.
>
> I was able to confirm that the perl interface does free the memory it
> mallocs, so I conclude the problem is in the PAM libraries. I was
> testing on RH 7.3 with pam-0.75-32 and Authen-PAM-0.13 but I dont know
> if its specific to RH
After running AuthBy PAM for an certain amount of time...I get
core dumps. I don't see the correlation but I thought I might add
that. I haven't looked for leaks but there is something wrong
with the way Radiator or Authen-PAM uses PAM...I use this same pam
module for several other services that get used hundreds or
thousands of times a day without problems. But with Radiator or
Authen-PAM I get core dumps often.
This is on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE (which gets it's pam stuff directly
from the Linux work).
I tried it on other systems as well. Don't know if it is related
(probably not), but maybe there is a problem with Authen-PAM.
Nick Rogness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets
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