webauthldap(SUNetID): cannot get ticket: Too many open files (24)

[Russ Allbery]

Fletcher Cocquyt <fcocquyt at stanford.edu> writes:

> [Wed Feb 18 13:32:43 2009] [error] webauthldap(SUNetID): cannot get ticket: 
> Too many open files (24)

Aha.  It's the MIT Kerberos keytab code.  src/lib/krb5/keytab/kt_file.c
uses stdio.

mod_webauthldap might potentially be able to work around this by opening
the keytab at startup and caching the keytab object, but it allows using
different keytabs per virtual host, so that's not a simple change.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>