AUTHINFO GENERIC

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Todd Olson wrote:

> At 13:03 -0700 2003/10/17, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >Note that AUTHINFO GENERIC is something that we'll probably remove in
> >newer versions; I wouldn't recommend using it as the basis for future
> >work.  It has some severe limitations (for example, you can't do SASL via
> >it because it can't have a conversation with the client).
> 
> Thanks for the notice on this issue.
> Even so, though the future is very desirable, the present is what I
> have to deal with, so I may have to cobble together a stop gap
> based on authinfo generic

Unless there are any clients that support AUTHINFO GENERIC, you'd probably 
be better off trying to implement the SASL pre-draft such as it is -- 
several people have already done so and gotten it working.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org