On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:09 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> The cache seems to be faulty somehow, I wish there was a way to dump the
> >> contents of the cache to debug this, because somehow I cannot forcefully
> >> reproduce it.
> >>     
> >
> > Here's a way:
> >
> > 1. Try to log in unsuccessfully.
> > 2. Change the password.
> > 3. Try to log in with the changed password -> doesn't work, because the
> > old one is still cached.
> >   
> If the auth is unsuccessful (cache missmatch), the cache should then go 
> for a lookup in the passdb, correct?

Only when the previous authentication was successful.

> > # TTL for negative hits (user not found). 0 disables caching them 
> > completely.
> > #auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600
> >
> > I suppose there could be a new setting to use auth cache only for
> > successful lookups..
> >   
> I don't understand why it would cache negative lookups if I set 
> negative_ttl to 0, even if the setting isn't suppose to work that way 
> currently, it should.

Hmm. Maybe.

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