Re: [PATCH] Bug 2680: ** helper errors after -k rotate

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 08:42 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> tor 2009-07-16 klockan 14:47 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:
>
> > And the sad reality in squid-3 with _one_ helper:
> >
> > squid-*------1-helper-------* winbindd [state1, state2]
> > \-------crash: all 2 of 1 helpers all RS pending state.
>
> You can't run NTLM with just one helper, not until both the following
> are true:
>
> 1. We implement the current request protocol for stateful helpers

I thought we put a unique id on the stateful helper protocol _way_ back.
Sigh :(

> 2. Samba implements the same in ntlm_auth (iirc this has been done in
> Samab4)

We'd need to ask, I can do that if we think it hasn't been done. As
samba supplies the auth helpers there shouldn't be a compatibility issue
in changing it.

-Rob