This document describes configuration options for the Cyrus SASL auxiliary property plugin ldapdb.
This plugin reads all user data from an LDAP server. It requires configuration of the ldapdb plugin and of the LDAP server. The ldapdb plugin must name a proxy user. The …
This document describes generic configuration options for the Cyrus SASL authentication library libsasl.
The library handles communication between an application and the Cyrus SASL authentication framework. Both exchange information before libsasl can start offering authentication services for the application.
The application, among other data, sends the service_name. The service …
saslauthd is a daemon process that handles plaintext authentication requests on behalf of the SASL library.
The server fulfills two roles: it isolates all code requiring superuser privileges into a single process, and it can be used to provide proxy authentication services to clients that do not understand SASL …
This document describes LDAP configuration options for the Cyrus SASL password verification service saslauthd.
By default saslauthd searches for LDAP configuration options in /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf. This location can be overridden if the additional command line option -O specifies an alternative path to the configuration file.
This document describes configuration options for the Cyrus SASL auxiliary property plugin sasldb.
sasldb is always loaded by default.
Note
It will be used if explicitly configured, but also if other mechanisms have failed to load e.g. because they haven't been configured properly.
This plugin reads all user …
sasldblistusers2 lists users in the SASL password database (usually /etc/sasldb2) created via saslpasswd2.
The following command line parameters are available:
ldapdb 5, libsasl 5, saslauthd 8, saslauthd.conf 5, sasldb …
saslpasswd2 is used by a server administrator to set a user's SASL password for server programs and SASL mechanisms which use the standard libsasl database of user secrets. By default it creates, modifies and disables users in a sasldb 5 database. Given an optional configuration file (see: saslpasswd.conf …
The optional saslpasswd.conf configuration file controls which authentication backends - sasldb, sql and ldapdb auxprop plugins - the saslpasswd2 command will use to create, modify and disable authentication identities.
To Cyrus SASL saslpasswd2 is like any other server that requests authentication services. The command identifies itself with the application name …
This document describes configuration options for the Cyrus SASL auxiliary property plugin sql.
sql is a generic plugin for various SQL backends. Currently it provides access to either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite databases.
Note
The plugin requires that passwords in the database are stored in plaintext format in order …
I think it must be at least 8 years ago, since I boarded a plane in Munich and flew to meet Alexey Melnikov in London. We spent the weekend going over the Cyrus SASL code, because I was destined to write man pages for this important SASL framework. Writing the …
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