Authentication Method
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... LDAP only in
combination with the SASL EXTERNAL authentication method (see Section
5.2.3), and then only if the SASL EXTERNAL implementation chooses to
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... SASL Authentication Method ...
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The sasl authentication method of the Bind Operation provides
facilities for using any SASL mechanism including authentication
mechanisms ...
... includes native anonymous and name/password (plain text)
authentication methods, the ANONYMOUS [RFC4505] and PLAIN [PLAIN]
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... confidentiality. LDAP
implementations SHOULD NOT by default support authentication methods
using clear text passwords and other unprotected authentication ...
... Additional security considerations relating to the various
authentication methods and mechanisms discussed in this document
apply and can be found in [RFC4422], [RFC4013 ...
... The IANA has updated the LDAP Bind Authentication Method registry to
indicate that this document and [RFC4511 ...
... technical specification for the simple (0) and sasl (3) bind
authentication methods.
The IANA ...