Re: Authenticating with Cyrus SASL

[Quanah Gibson-M. <qu...@st...>]

--On Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:48 AM -0800 "Joshua J. England" 
<jj...@sa...> wrote:

> Environment:
> perl-ldap-0.26
> Authen-SASL-2.02
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.7
>
> I am trying to write some perl scripts to manipulate data in my LDAP
> directory that authenticates with Cyrus SASL (DIGEST-MD5).  Nothing I'm
> trying seems to work though.  When I try to run my program I get:
>
> No SASL mechanism found
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Authen/SASL.pm line 62
>
>
> When I try the EXTERNAL mechanism I get:
>
> SASL(-4): no mechanism available: External SSF not good enough
>
>
> I've tried installing Authen-SASL-Cyrus-0.05, but it will not even
> compile and doesn't seem to support libsasl2.  I've hacked it out enough
> to make it compile, but I get a segfault when running.  I think it just
> won't work with sasl2.
>
> Has anyone gotten authentication to work with Cyrus SASL and libsasl2?
> Is anything obviously wrong?
>
># !/usr/bin/perl
> use Net::LDAP;
> use Authen::SASL;
># use Authen::SASL::Cyrus;
>
># Initiate LDAP session
> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('ldapserver', onerror => 'die');
> $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
>                           mechanism => 'DIGEST-MD5',
>                           callback => {
>                                        pass => \&fetch_password,
>                                        user => $user,
>                                       }
>                          );
>
># $conn = $sasl->client_new('ldap', 'ldapserver');

Josh,

I've been working on a similar problem with GSSAPI authentication.  From 
what I can tell, there is some problem with how the Net::LDAP piece is 
setting up the bind to the ldapserver.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
Stanford University
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