Saslauthd and 2 authentication mechanism

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Paul van der Vlis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to use 2 authentication mechanisms with Saslauthd. When the first
> one gives "no", it should try the other one.
>
> The man-page says: "saslauthd supports one or more 'authentication
> mechanisms',

This does not say that you can use more than one concurrently.

> but it does not work, saslauthd uses only the first mechanism.
>
> paul at vlis:~/techniek$ ps ax | grep sasl
> 4951 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam ldap
> 4952 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam ldap
> 4953 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam ldap
> 4954 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam ldap
> 4955 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam ldap
>
> I have also tried "-a 'pam ldap'" but then saslauthd does not start.

You can use only one at a time.

-- 
Igor
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