NAME

sasl-sample-client — Sample client program for demonstrating and testing SASL authentication.

SYNOPSIS

sasl-sample-client [-b min=N,max=N] [-e ssf=N,id=ID] [-m MECH] [-f FLAGS] [-i local=IP,remote=IP] [-p PATH] [-s NAME] [-n FQDN] [-u ID] [-a ID]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the sasl-sample-client command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

sasl-sample-client is a program to demonstrate and test SASL authentication. It implements the client part, and the server part is available as sasl-sample-server.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

-b: Number of bits to use for encryption.

min=N: minimum number of bits to use (1 => integrity)
max=N: maximum number of bits to use

-e: Assume external encryption.

ssf=N: external mech provides N bits of encryption
id=ID: external mech provides authentication id ID

-m: Force use of MECH for security.
-f: Set security flags.

noplain: require security vs. passive attacks
noactive: require security vs. active attacks
nodict: require security vs. passive dictionary attacks
forwardsec: require forward secrecy
maximum: require all security flags
passcred: attempt to pass client credentials

-i: Set IP addresses (required by some mechs).

local=IP;PORT: set local address to IP, port PORT
remote=IP;PORT: set remote address to IP, port PORT

-p: Colon-separated search path for mechanisms.
-r: Realm to use.
-s: Service name passed to mechanisms.
-n: Server fully-qualified domain name.
-u: User (authorization) id to request.
-a: Id to authenticate as.
-d: Disable client-send-first.
-l: Enable server-send-last.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Fabian Fagerholm fabbe@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.