version 2.1.24rc1 openldap requirements

[Howard Chu]

Stephen Ingram wrote:
> I thought I had successfully built rpms for version 2.1.24rc1 of Cyrus
> SASL. It does itself seem to work for authentication, however, it
> seems to be preventing openldap from working on the same system. I'm
> using version 2.4.23 that comes with Fedora 14. When I run slaptest, I
> get the error:
>
> slap_sasl_init: auxprop add plugin failed
> slaptest: slap_init failed!
>
> and I see the following in the log file:
>
> slaptest: auxpropfunc error version mismatch with plug-in
>
> I'm not really sure what plug in openldap is trying to load as it
> won't even work with an out of the box slapd.d directory (or a blank
> one for that matter). Looking at the source, there seems to be some
> sort of version checking which would follow logically from the error
> messages, however, I can't seem to tell exactly which piece of
> cyrus-sasl is causing the problem. The error goes away once I roll
> back to Fedora's cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 so I'm guessing it's something new
> in the updated version of cyrus-sasl (perhaps the sasl canon_user
> plug-in I'm after) that's causing the problem. Do I need to be using
> some specific updated version of openldap or a specific configuration
> to make this work?

No, there's no specific version of OpenLDAP required. However, there's a 
specific Cyrus SASL plugin interface version number, and apparently this has 
changed between 2.1.23 and 2.1.24. Therefore you must recompile OpenLDAP with 
the 2.1.24 headers and libraries if you want to run with 2.1.24.

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