I'm working on getting SASL setup & tested, for eventual use with GSSAPI/KerberosV authentication. I'm not sure what the right OpenSuse list for this is, but since it is a security topic, I thought 'here' would be a good start. I've got Cyrus SASL installed from distribution repos on OpenSuse 11, saslauthd -v saslauthd 2.1.22 authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap I'm reading the SASL docs' "Configuring GSSAPI and Cyrus SASL" (.../gssapi.html). The instructions there state: "The command-line used for sample-server needs to specify the GSSAPI service name and the location of the plug-ins; your sample command line might look something like this: ./sample-server -s host -p ../plugins/.libs on UNIX" On OpenSuse, apparently, the app is instead (?), /usr/bin/cyrus_sasl_sample_server Checking the sample server/client apps' usage options, they're, usage: client [-p port] [-s service] [-m mech] host usage: server [-p port] [-s service] [-m mech] where "-p" refers to "port". Which is clearly *not* the plugin library, as per the docs/example. When I try to run the recommended test, I get simply, cyrus_sasl_sample_server -p 389 -s ldap -m GSSAPI trying 2, 1, 6 trying 10, 1, 6 socket: Address family not supported by protocol and, @ syslog: Sep 5 09:08:31 dirsvr cyrus_sasl_sample_server: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter supplied Sep 5 09:08:31 dirsvr cyrus_sasl_sample_server: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb not, as the doc says, " You should get a response similar to: Generating client mechanism list... Sending list of 3 mechanism(s) S: R1NTQVBJIFBMQUlOIEFOT05ZTU9VUw== " Can someone please clarify how to set up, run & pass the simple 'sample' tests? Or, point to some other docs? Or, even explain what the console output/ log errors might mean? I've posted what I've done so far (much the same as here) on the Cyrus SASL list too, @ http://www.irbs.net/internet/cyrus-sasl/0809/0005.html To be honest, I've managed to get more confused since I started. Thanks, Ric -- Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/Ioyw6h4eRCkUqa67voYXqzEG9Kr77Qh9kxfyTayJUNWA9... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org