Bug#418615: cyrus21-imapd crashes if nsswitch is configured with ldap group support

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Rico Barth wrote:
> We recently updated from libnss-ldap_251-7.5_ia64 to
> libnss-ldap_251-7.5etch1_ia64. Now the error re-occurs. However, after 
> downgrading to libnss-ldap_251-7.5_ia64 the error still occurs. Now the 
> interesting part: before upgrading we've had no problems for a few months 
> (see some postings above).
>
> Now there is some new information. While switching and using POP3 instead 
> of IMAP the very same error occurs in the log, when the very same deamon 
> process is used:

Sounds like something is not cleaning up state... or that its state *is*
being cleared up by cyrus21-imapd when it doesn't expect.  Sounds like the
usual extreme braindamage we get from SASL when it is used by an NSS helper,
indeed...

Why can't the !@#$# NSS helpers run as separate processes :-(   that would
fix everything and provide more intelligent caching than nscd ever could, on
top of it.

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  Henrique Holschuh