Must a simple bind with DN and no pwd be treated as anonymous?

[Sam Johnson <Sam.Johnson@FernUni-Hagen.de>]

While trying to implement a PAM-module for Solaris I have discovered
that the Sun Directory Server aka LDAP server treats a simple bind with
DN and a null (missing) password as an anonymous bind.  The documentation
for the Netscape Directory SDK API also documents this behaviour.  So,
do the RFC's suggest or require this, or is the matter still open to
discussion and complaint (and modification)? 

Thanks for reading this.

Sam Johnson				Sam.Johnson@FernUni-Hagen.de 
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