Recently, I was able to get MD5 authentication working for XMPP streams in Swift IOS following the instructions on the following two websites (I used the CC-MD5 function of Apple's CommonCrypto C l...

I am getting the error while running ldapsearch command and client side authentication also not coming. Could anyone please help me to sort out the problem ? ERROR MESSAGE ldap_sasl_interactiv...

I followed the step described in the link below to setup my mac to send out email. http://www.anujgakhar.com/2011/12/09/using-macosx-lion-command-line-mail-with-gmail-as-smtp/ It was working fine...

I'm trying to set up SVN to authenticate against an ActiveDirectory. I know this is possible if you set up SVN to be served using Apache, but doing so introduces too much overhead, and SVN runs too...

I have a VPS server which is running postfix + dovecot as mail server. I have already created two accounts which work well. Both can send and receive email via STARTTLS and SSL. But when I added a...

I'm setting up openLDAP with SASL authentification with kerberos. I got problem with this auth. First, I get the kerberos ticket with kinit. When I make a klist, the ticket is displayed. So, no pr...

I've been debugging a JDBC Connection error in hive, similar to what was asked here: Hive JDBC getConnection does not return. By turning on log4j properly, i finally got down to seeing this , bef...

Scenario: Windows server in a AD domain hosting a Subversion repository using SVNSERVE only (no Apache), and not VisualSVN. Objective: Authenticate users to the Subversion repository via SASL thro...

I'm trying to use Smack to log into a XMPP server. When trying to login I get the following Error : SASL authentication PLAIN failed: not-authorized I have been able to connect and log into th...

I need to send email through an (external) SMTP server from Java however this server will only accept CRAM-MD5 authentication, which is not supported by JavaMail. What would be a good way to get t...

I am trying to connect to facebook chat using Jabber.net(c#/Mono). The code I am using is this: static ManualResetEvent done = new ManualResetEvent(false); const bool VERBOSE = true; const str...

I have been working on using GSSAPI in c/c++ applications, for some time now. Obviously I had to google and research a lot. One of the most interesting documentation I discovered was on Sun's old w...

My understanding is that SSL combines an encryption algorithm (like AES, DES, etc.) with a key exchange method (like Diffie-Hellman) to provide secure encryption and identification services between...

I am doing a project which involves authentication and I can't quite grasp the difference between SASL and gssapi. Is gssapi used under the covers of SASL? Can I use gssapi without SASL? What is th...

I have a user authorized to access their gmail through imap using OAuth2.0. I have the OAuth2.0 access token (and refresh token). But I am having trouble figuring out how to map that into an XOAUTH...

I'm trying to use the ldap_sasl_bind_s method from the Microsoft LDAP C SDK, with GSSAPI as the authentication mechanism. ldap_sasl_bind_s expects the credentials as a BERVAL structure, which is op...

While learning Haskell I took a side road (so to speak) in researching the Kent Recursive Calculator and SASL functional languages. I was immediately struck by the similarities between them and Has...