SASL support for session handler

[orensol]

Hi,

There is (a rather undocumented) support for SASL in the client, but not in the session handler.

I think it will be useful to add SASL support for session handler. This way cloud based Memcached services which require SASL (like Northscale, Memcachier...) can be used as session storages.

[zekenie]

1+

[gabriel-samfira]

👍

[martijngastkemper]

1+

[mkoppanen]

Ok, will work on this tomorrow. Is this still relevant?

[gabriel-samfira]

yes :)

[mkoppanen]

Ok, session sasl support is in master. Let me know if it works.

[aiso-net]

Can you show us example .ini settings that allows you to use php sessions in memcached with SASL?

[mkoppanen]

Try:

memcached.use_sasl = On
memcached.sess_sasl_username = <yourusername>
memcached.sess_sasl_password = <yourpassword>

Let me know how it goes.

[aiso-net]

I have that via the CloudLinux php selector and I see sasl_on in phpinfo but not username and password, and I'm getting a denied error in my php session test file, as well as auth failed error in the memcached server log file. I have a memcached test file with the same ip, port, username, and password as the memcached ini settings and it works fine.

[mkoppanen]

Which version is it? I added these settings in the latest beta release.

[aiso-net]

Ya, that would be it, thanks. Cloudlinux php selector has:

memcached support enabled
Version 2.1.0
libmemcached version 1.0.15

I have asked them to upgrade their rpms.

Do I need to have set memcached.sess_binary=On as well?

[mkoppanen]

memcached.sess_binary=On should not make difference. If you turn on Sasl for sessions the binary protocol is turned on automatically.

[aiso-net]

Thanks, do you know when the current beta version that supports SASL will go into stable?

[mkoppanen]

We released beta1 after large amount of changes so there has to be a small grace period to allow users to test. This far there has been no bug reports so I will most likely push out stable during the christmas break.

[aiso-net]

Any update on when you will be pushing that beta to live? Cloudlinux wont compile it into an rpm for use on our servers as long as its in beta. Thanks!