On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, 17:32 Stephen Paul Weber, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >> However it does lack any way to support indicating to the server
> >> which
> >> credential will be used, other than perhaps by implication from the SASL
> >> mechanism.
> >>
> >>
> >That's not the purview of a SASL profile. If a SASL mechanism supports
> >multiple credentials, that's entirely encapsulated within that mechanism.
>
> Except that it is not. For example all of the SCRAM-SASL-* profiles can
> easily support authentication with any of the passwords on an account, but
> they need to know in advance which one is being used. So SASL mechanism is
> insufficient for selecting credential by itself.
>
> The same goes for the HT-* token mechanisms.
>

Yes, I mean, the SASL profile itself doesn't do anything there.

If you want to indicate a particular credential, you could use the
authentication identifier to select which, and the authorization identifier
might remain the same. Or a mechanism might support multiple credentials.

But the SASL profile isn't involved here.

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