[Issue 9829] set timeouts in remoteauth overlay

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9829

--- Comment #1 from Ondřej Kuzník ondra@mistotebe.net --- On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 02:57:23PM +0000, openldap-its@openldap.org wrote:

Currently, it seems there is no way to configure timeouts in the remoteauth overlay.

For example, if I define a remoteauth_mapping with a file containing a list of hostnames, the first one is checked first.

After "remoteauth_retry_count" * "connect_timeout" seconds, (210s on my system), remoteauth test the second server in the list.

In some circumstances, it could be nice to set the connect timeout lower (or higher).

Hi David, you'll have to be more specific about how you propose this to actually behave because in my view that's not obvious from your description.