On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 03:04, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Robert, what is the purpose of the auth_user_hash_pointer in the ntlm
> scheme, and do you have any idea as to why the use of this would be
> growing a lot?

challenge-response caching: if the challenge given by the helper is the
same, and the response is the same, it's a valid login a priori.

It will be growing a lot because it's not currently trimmed before the
user details are purged, and the new code will be never hitting.

My opinion: blow it away.

Rob


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