Ken Murchison wrote:
> Christopher Audley wrote:
<...>
> >
> > Because the protocol is essentially the same as pwcheck, you can lift
> > saslauthd from a latter version of SASL and use it with your 1.5.24 SASL
> > installation.
>
> Well... This is *most likely* going to change in SASL v2. The current
> thinking between myself, Lyndon Nerenberg from Messaging Direct (the
> original author of saslauthd), and Rob Siemborski and Larry Greenfield
> from CMU, is that the protocol will be changed to use counted length
> strings instead of NUL delimited strings, and will be extended to
> include the service name and user realm. An example from Lyndon is
> below.
>
Why the proposed change, Ken? The current null termination is easy to use
and existing daemons already work with it.
I can understand the interest in adding the service name, and I'd sure I'd
understand why 'realm' is useful if you could explain briefly what that
is... But I don't see the point of changing the format.
Hey, it's no big deal--I'm sure I can handle counting characters ;-) But if
it ain't broke, don't fix it, huh?
