[Fedora-directory-users] How to make anonymous SASL work?

[devel - Fashion Content]

I have cyrus-sasl installed and configured so I tried testsaslauthd which 
failed so I tried ldapsearch.

Should I remove OpenLDAP, I thought sasl used the LDAP client.

Henrik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morris, Patrick" <patrick.morris at hp.com>
To: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project." 
<fedora-directory-users at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make anonymous SASL work?


>> I seem quite stuck on getting the first step of setting up
>> mail authentication.
>>
>> I have a running directory and Cyrus-SASL installed, but I
>> can't get the two to communicate properly.
>>
>> For now I think anonymous access is fine as they are on the
>> same server.
>>
>> I tried ldapsearch, but it seems to fail quite basicly:
>>
>> [root at langham ~]# ldapsearch -D "cn=admin" -w fidelio77 -b
>> "fashioncontent.com" cn=hvendelbo SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
>> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
>>         additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>> [root at langham ~]# ldapsearch -X -Y
>> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
>> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
>>         additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>>
>> As I understand the message I need to configure some protocol
>> on the server, but I have no idea where or how??
>
>
> It looks like you're using the OpenLDAP version of ldapsearch and don't
> have SAASL auth set up on the server.
>
> You can either pass the "-x" switch to ldapsearch to use plaintext auth,
> ot use the ldapsearch that comes with the directory server (probably in
> /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin).
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