[KLUG Members] SASL

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:44:36 -0400


On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:23:41PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> > No. Mutt, e.g., supports several authentication schemes (PLAIN,
> > DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI). Your server uses SASL to negotiate one of those
> > schemes and uses SASL to run a PLAIN.plugin or CRAM-MD5.plugin to
> > authenticate the user.
> 
> All looks like a good explanantion to me, thanks!

Well, not quite. I should have recognized the obvious thought that the
client needs to properly negotiate the SASL dialog. mutt and cyrdeliver
both link to SASL.

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