rc41 and sasl

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Tue Mar 13 18:45:36 EDT 2007


Hey Mike,
So sasl1 is readily available, so is there a problem?
Because no one is complaining, I've not worried about
it, and so  its pretty low on the priority list.  Does sasl2 do
anything any different?

Carter


On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Michael Hornung wrote:

> Thanks Chris.  I note now that in the INSTALL file it lists SASLv1  
> only.
> Do people not use it ("it" meaning SASL support in Argus) these days
> because there is a different safe and reliable way to protect data  
> from a
> probe to a concentrator?  I don't like the thought of sending this  
> data in
> the clear on a user network, and for my current needs that is the  
> network
> I'm using.  Otherwise for the time being I will install and use SASLv1
> instead!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 at 21:33, Christoph Badura wrote:
>
> |On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:25:23AM -0700, Michael Hornung wrote:
> |> and they put headers in /usr/include/sasl/ and the library is
> |> libsasl2.a.  The rc41 client and server configuration does not  
> allow one
> |> to specify "/usr/include/sasl/" as the includedir since it appends
> |> "include" to whatever you supply with "--with-sasl".  And the  
> test for
> |> libsasl does not look for -lsasl2!
> |
> |my understanding is that argus expects to build against SASL1 not  
> SASL2.
> |You would need to convert it to the SASL2 conventions.  Losing SASL1
> |support along that way shouldn't hurt much. I get the impression that
> |nobody uses it these days.
>

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