On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Jon Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm interested in taking a crack at implementing SASL authentication.

Great! Go for it. I'm happy to talk about the design and implementation,
and review and pull patches when it comes time.

> Is it your preference to have a standalone SASL authenticator rather
> than building the functionality directly into Beanstalk?

Yes, that is my preference.

Note that this requires passing fds over a unix domain socket.

> One feature of this approach, I suppose, is that you could handle
> multiple users that don't trust one another from a single endpoint by
> dispatching to multiple beanstalkd instances.

That's true, but I think the main feature is avoiding putting
authentication logic in beanstalkd itself (or any other service
that uses the standalone authenticator).

kr

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