Re: (ITS#3845) support for SASL binds with plaintext rootpw

[hyc@symas.com]

Jason Townsend wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Well, the patch is fine (I'd add a descriptive comment to it) but  in 
>> general, slurpd should not be binding with the rootdn.
>>
>> We can probably add this to HEAD/RE23; I'm not sure it's eligible  
>> for RE22.
>
> Is there anything else you need from me on this patch? Here's a  
> descriptive comment.
>
> /* In order to support a SASL bind against the rootdn/rootpw  
> configuration,
>    it is necessary to return the cleartext password to SASL from the  
> configuration. */
>
> It might make sense to update this patch in light of the the more  
> robust scheme prefix checking you added to my other patch in this area.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

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