At 12:34 PM 3/6/2006, Geert Jansen wrote: >Would be happy to follow the guidelines if this patch could be >considered for inclusion.
Any properly submitted patch will be considered for inclusion. >Do you think this patch is a good feature for OpenLDAP to have? Personally, I might be convinced otherwise through elaboration of usefulness in clients that do support SASL EXTERNAL authentication. It seems to be that our support for SASL EXTERNAL with ldapi:// and identity mapping covers most use cases. That is, I don't see the desire to provide work-arounds for clients which purposely don't implement standard LDAP features as a good enough reason to include such a work-around. I much rather see the clients be extended to support SASL EXTERNAL (as well as other SASL mechanisms). Kurt
