sasl2-bin: saslauthd leaks memory using PAM

[Fabian Fagerholm]

Hi,

A long time ago, you submitted a bug against the cyrus-sasl2 Debian
package regarding a memory leak in the saslauthd daemon.

After a lot of investigation, I'm fairly confident that I've pinpointed
the issue -- and it seems that it is a memory leak related to the
getpwnam_r function, described in Debian bug #273051.

There is an easy way to confirm this. Just edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and
replace all occurrences of "compat" with "files". Doing this, and
restarting saslauthd, should stop the memory leaks. I would be very
happy if you could try this out on your system and tell me if the memory
leaks stopped (or were reduced).

Please try this -- it would be great if we could confirm the root cause
of these memory leaks!

Thanks,
-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net>
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