To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

Cyrus Daboo daboo at cyrusoft.com
Thu Oct 30 12:07:33 EST 2003


Hi Etienne,

--On Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:07 -0500 Etienne Goyer 
<etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com> wrote:

| It might be interesting to add that only certain mechanism provide
| so-called "proxy" authentication (authcid/authzid separation; how would
| this feature be called ?).  PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5 are the one I know for
| sure provide it, while CRAM-MD5 don't.  I am not sure about GSSAPI,
| EXTERNAL and other.

Both Kerberos_v4 and GSSAPI have authorization ids, as does EXTERNAL. The 
only standard ones that currently do not are CRAM-MD5 and (obviously) 
ANONYMOUS.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo




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