On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 10:09 -0400, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:05:04AM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> 2. store the pair (user,domainname) in the in-memory cache as well
> - find domain name in in-memory cache
> - if not found then perform initgroups, go into provider, ...
>
> - find default options in in-memory cache
> - if not found then go into provider, ...
>
> Advantage - faster, easier to implement
> Disadvantage - bigger memory dump if the sudo is used by many users
>
> I hope that this is understandable enough.
>
The cache places a timer on the cached data, so the memory is only
occupied for a short and defined period of time. I think the advantages
outweight the slightly bigger memory consumption, so I would prefer this
option.
Why this data is not simply stored in LDB ?
Simo.
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