Environment
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for NetWare 6.5
Novell Modular Authentication Service (NMAS) version 3.2.0
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 7
Novell Modular Authentication Service (NMAS) version 3.2.0
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 7
Situation
- dsloader.nlm consumes memory until the server must be rebooted.
- security container has been made into a partition.
- server has a real copy of the security partition.
- remote servers create 100 or more connections to the affected servers.
- problem does not occur when nmas is unloaded.
Resolution
There's a defect in NMAS where remote servers won't close a connection when a user authenticates. This only happens under the following conditions:
- The user has an assigned univeral password policy.
- The policy is not assigned at the user object, the user's parent container or the user's partition root.
- The policy is assigned to the login policy object in the security container.
- Apply Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 to the remote servers
- Remove the policy from the login policy object and assign it to a different object in the tree