PLAIN missing from Supported SASLMechanisms in LDAP

[Robert Walk]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:43 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Robert Walk wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm working on getting OpenLDAP on FC3 to authenticate through cyrus-
> > sasl using the PLAIN mechanism.  The problem is that even though I have
> > cyrus-sasl-plain installed LDAP doesn't list it as an available
> > authentication mechanism.  It also doesn't list LOGIN as an
> > authentication mechanism.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to
> > get this working?
> > 
> > 
> > # ldapsearch -x -H ldap:// -LLL -s "base" -b "" supportedSASLMechanisms
> > dn:
> > supportedSASLMechanisms: DIGEST-MD5
> > supportedSASLMechanisms: NTLM
> > supportedSASLMechanisms: CRAM-MD5
> > supportedSASLMechanisms: GSSAPI
> 
> You probably want to look manual page for slapd.conf.  Option that 
> you'll be most interested in is "sasl-secprops".  If not present, 
> default is "noanonymous,noplain" (hence, PLAIN SASL mechanism will not 
> be used).  You may also want to check "security" option.
> 
> -- 
> Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
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> 

That was it, thank you!

Rob