Because saslauthd allows only single authentication mechanism to be used. In my case I need to be able to have both mysql and ldap (though may be it is possible to have in both through pam). I guess auxprops frameworks allows this multiple mechanisms to be achieved. At least, that's how it looks at first glance.
Anna On 9/19/07, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shawn Nock wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Dieter Kluenter wrote: > >> "Anna Arnaudova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am looking for auxprop plugin implementation for ldap query equal to > the one > >>> implemented in saslauthd. > >>> Managed to found only one from Simon Loader, but it is against > cyrus-sasl > >>> 2.1.10. > >> ldapdb? > >> > >> -Dieter > > > > We maintain the old ldapauxprop locally for use in our production email > > system. I'll pass you a tarball or patches against 2.1.22 if you are > > interested. > > Maybe a stupid question but - if you want the functionality of saslauthd, > why > don't you just use saslauthd? You're not getting any benefit of the > auxprop > architecture here. > -- > -- Howard Chu > Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ >
