PLAIN missing from Supported SASLMechanisms in LDAP

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Robert Walk wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm working on getting OpenLDAP on FC3 to authenticate through cyrus-
> sasl using the PLAIN mechanism.  The problem is that even though I have
> cyrus-sasl-plain installed LDAP doesn't list it as an available
> authentication mechanism.  It also doesn't list LOGIN as an
> authentication mechanism.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to
> get this working?
> 
> 
> # ldapsearch -x -H ldap:// -LLL -s "base" -b "" supportedSASLMechanisms
> dn:
> supportedSASLMechanisms: DIGEST-MD5
> supportedSASLMechanisms: NTLM
> supportedSASLMechanisms: CRAM-MD5
> supportedSASLMechanisms: GSSAPI

You probably want to look manual page for slapd.conf.  Option that 
you'll be most interested in is "sasl-secprops".  If not present, 
default is "noanonymous,noplain" (hence, PLAIN SASL mechanism will not 
be used).  You may also want to check "security" option.

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