Fwd: SASL Server Plugin

[Dan White]

On 11/21/12 14:18 +0530, Mathew iprocessor wrote:
>Hi Dan,
>
>Thanks a lot for your reply. I dont need to implement a email server. I
>just need to wirte my own mechanism just like PLAIN. For this I renamed
>mech name to something like "sample-mech" and compiled it added the
>corresponding .so files in /usr/lib64/sasl2. I gave the command
>"sasl2-shared-mechlist" i get Available mechanisms: sample-mech. *Everything
>is ok till now.*
>
>*I tried creating a sample-mech.c and compiled it and copied the .so file
>to /usr/lib64/sasl2, now when I give the command "sasl2-shared-mechlist".
>Now the mechanism name is not getting listed as above. What might be the
>reason for this? Do I need to  anything extra while adding a mechanism like
>this? *Please suggest..!

Check syslog (auth facility) for any errors in loading your shared library.

>On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/12 10:20 +0530, Mathew iprocessor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to implement SASL in my email client. I downloaded Cyrus-SASL and
>>> installed it. When the client sends the "UserName" and "Password", my
>>> server needs to verify the "UserName" and "Password" and Authenticate it.
>>> The below are some of my doubts, Please clarify.

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Dan White