Contradictory saslauthd

[Jeff Blaine]

mv saslauthd saslauthd-is-not-an-IP-based-d

All set!

Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> I'm not being flippant here.  I want to understand what I am
>> doing (or failing to do).  This seems contradictory to me
>> below.  What am I not privvy to?
>> [...]
> 
> So ... what do you not understand?
> 
> (If it helps out at all ... the point to saslauthd is to verify plaintext
> passwords.  Say, for example, you support PLAIN authentication ... saslauthd
> can handle that.  If you say "-a kerberos5", it will verify that plaintext
> password against your Kerberos server (it does the equivalant of a kinit).
> 
> --Ken