On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 18:45:47 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Peter: > > The SASL_README doc has a section about doing a telnet test of a PLAIN > > SASL authentication. There are some methods suggested for generating > > the base64 hash required to do the authentication, Of those two methods > > one requires downloading a special utility to generate the auth string > > and the other requires installing a perl module. I have a third suggestion: > > > > echo -ne '\000username\000password' | openssl base64 > > > > This method is relatively easy to do, and will work with the programs > > that are already readily available on most systems. I think it would be > > good to add it to the docs. > > This does not work for me. If you make a suggestion, be sure > to indicate what platform and shell this applies to.
Appears to work in bash and zsh; not in (t)csh. I quickly tested on FreeBSD and Darwin. Likely related to handling of null byte/char. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org>
