rc41 and sasl

Michael Hornung hornung at cac.washington.edu
Tue Mar 13 18:54:27 EDT 2007


It sounds like there is no problem and I should use SASLv1, which I will 
do!  Thanks.

-Mike

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 at 18:45, Carter Bullard wrote:

|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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