On Sun, September 11, 2005 10:40 am, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 11/9/05 4:32, Peter Marschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The selection of the mech used for authentication does not happen in the >> client (i.e. Authen::SASL does not decide) >> The mach gets selected when the connection is made to the server >> and then the server chooses the mech (AFAIK). > > The client offers the server a list of mechanisms though, and the server > decides which one it can use (if any!)
Thats not quite right. For LDAP the root DSE contains and attibute supportedSASLMechanisms which has a list that the client has to choose from. Graham.
