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Re: createSaslClient by the Java LDAP API

At 06:08 PM 4/6/01 -0700, Rob Weltman wrote:
>  Or does "credentials" here not refer to the authorization ID?

The credentials are used establish the authentication identity.
That is, in SASL/PLAIN (for simplicity), the username/password
pair form the credential.  The authentication identity is the
username.  The authorization identity can be asserted a long
side of a credential but is generally not part of the credential.

Kurt