SASL binds
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Mon Mar 11 12:43:33 CET 2002
Hans Aschauer wrote:
>
> SASL binds are still on the TODO list for python-ldap.
Yes.
> A few days ago I started experimenting with this topic, and I succeeded
> in doing SASL binds from python. However, my sasl_bind_s() method for
> the ldap class is at the moment only a proof of concept and has many
> shortcomings (works only with the gssapi-method or methods which do not
> require user interaction,
GSS-API means Kerberos?
Which LDAP server are you using?
What's your motivation for doing SASL binds?
> links to a "private" openldap lib (liblutil.a),
For what reason?
Note that unlike python-ldap 1.x which wrapped LDAP C APIs of different
vendors python-ldap 2.x is closely tied to OpenLDAP 2.x libs. Therefore it's
no problem to use everything which is shipped with recent OpenLDAP 2.0.23+
nowadays.
> does not implement interaction callbacks, to name only a
> few).
Hmm, implementing callbacks is a messy thing anyway. If we can make most
things without it I'd be glad to follow your approach.
> However, I am not really an experienced C programmer,
Welcome to the club...
> and I think I
> would need some help with several topics (memory management, how to do
> callbacks to user-supplied python functions from C, and so on).
Hmm, unfortunately experienced C programmers seem to be rare on this list...
Best bet is that you send your patches to the list and we'll see...
Ciao, Michael.
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