2.0.4 occasionally loses User-Password attribute?

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> The thousands of users in the sql-* databases are authenticated fine,
> the problem only occurs with this one static user. I'm sort of lost here.

a long time back i reported a similar issue. we have thousands of
users in AD and they are all fine. we have a monitoring user statically
defined in the users file.  every now and again, the password
is marked as incorrect by PAP - thus the monitor fails...

Wed May 28 10:52:15 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test port 0)
Wed May 28 10:53:33 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test2 port 0)
Wed May 28 10:57:16 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test port 0)
Wed May 28 10:58:33 2008 : Auth: Login incorrect (rlm_pap: CLEAR TEXT password check failed): [nagios] (from client test2 port 0)
Wed May 28 11:01:33 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test port 0)
Wed May 28 11:02:16 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test2 port 0)
Wed May 28 11:06:33 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test port 0)
Wed May 28 11:07:15 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test2 port 0)
Wed May 28 11:11:33 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test port 0)
Wed May 28 11:12:15 2008 : Auth: Login OK: [nagios] (from client test2 port 0)
Wed May 28 11:16:33 2008 : Auth: Login incorrect (rlm_pap: CLEAR TEXT password check failed): [nagios] (from client test port 0)

alan