Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#118 new enhancement

Parameter for the timeout of external auth programs

Reported by: Julien ÉLIE Owned by: eagle
Priority: low Milestone: 2.6.x
Component: nnrpd Version:
Severity: wishlist Keywords:
Cc:

Description

nnrpd currently implements a hard-coded five-second timeout for the receipt of the response from external auth programs.

It should be configurable. See nnrpd/auth-ext.c.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by Julien ÉLIE

Milestone: 2.6.1

Worthwhile doing it, as it was asked again in news.software.nntp in February 2015.

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[Julien ÉLIE]

I'm running an INN 2.5.3 server, and I need to extend the timeout that
nnrpd waits for a response from an external authenticator (e.g.
ckpasswd). This seems to be hard-coded as 5 seconds.

It looks like the relevant variable is tv.tv_sec, which is set to 5 on
line 205 in auth-ext.c.

Yep, that's the hard-coded value. A comment a bit above says:
"Currently, use a hard-coded five-second timeout for all programs. This
might need to be configurable later."

Can I simply increase this value and recompile to extend the timeout,
or will the cause other problems?

After digging a bit in the code that calls handle_output() and
auth_external(), I do not see a reason why increasing this value
would not work.

Just keep it under the value of clienttimeout in inn.conf (which is very
large anyway) and the 5 minutes of DEFAULT_TIMEOUT in include/inn/options.h.

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by Julien ÉLIE

Milestone: 2.6.12.6.x

Milestone renamed

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