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!

[mkoppanen]

Hi, there is one open bug #116 which seems troublesome. Trying to see if that can be sorted before release.

[aiso-net]

Do you think bug #116 is fixed now ?

[mkoppanen]

#126 has cropped up since

[aiso-net]

Any update on a release date for the stable release, got some clients waiting for our service and it depends on this. Thanks for your hard work!

[mkoppanen]

I've been wanting to work on this for a while, but work life got on to way. I am pushing RC1 out now, if everything seems ok with that we can aim to release around 8th or 9th March.

[mkoppanen]

I haven't had any feedback whether this feature actually works in the real world. It would be nice to get some feedback on RC1 if you have hardware to test on.

[aiso-net]

Ya I can test as soon as you release RC1 and let you know how it works, yet I dont see RC1 yet at http://pecl.php.net/package/memcached

[aiso-net]

Any updates?

[aiso-net]

I see RC1 on the site now, I will have the cloudlinux guys package it up and I will get it installed and tested and let you know within the next week.

[dhruvbhatia7]

Hi,
I'm trying to get memcached based sessions to work, and I'm new to memcached. I am using MemcacheSASL. I have session.save_handler=memcached (i've tried memcache also) in my php.ini file. It is not able to find either of these. Do I need to specify something else instead of memcached/memcache as the handler?

I apologize if this is a really obvious and stupid question. Just trying to get my project to work soon :)
Thanks,
Dhruv

[mkoppanen]

I don't really know anything about MemcacheSASL, Is it a library?

[mkoppanen]

Closing this as no feedback. Reopen if the issue persists.