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sasl_client_step(3)						  SASL man pages					       sasl_client_step(3)

NAME
sasl_client_step - Perform a step in the authentication negotiation SYNOPSIS
#include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_client_step(sasl_conn_t *conn, const char *serverin, unsigned serverinlen, sasl_interact_t ** prompt_need, const char ** clientout, unsigned * clientoutlen); DESCRIPTION
sasl_client_step() performs a step in the authentication negotiation. It returns SASL_OK if the whole negotiation is successful and SASL_CONTINUE if this step is ok but at least one more step is needed. A client should not assume an authentication negotiation is success- ful just because the server signaled success via protocol (i.e. if the server said ". OK Authentication succeeded" in IMAP sasl_client_step should still be called one more time with a serverinlen of zero. If SASL_INTERACT is returned the library needs some values to be filled in before it can proceed. The prompt_need structure will be filled in with requests. The application should fulfill these requests and call sasl_client_start again with identical parameters (the prompt_need parameter will be the same pointer as before but filled in by the application). conn is the SASL connection context serverin is the data given by the server (decoded if the protocol encodes requests sent over the wire) serverinlen is the length of serverin clientout and clientoutlen is created. It is the initial client response to send to the server. It is the job of the client to send it over the network to the server. Any protocol specific encoding (such as base64 encoding) necessary needs to be done by the client. RETURN VALUE
sasl_client_step returns an integer which corresponds to one of the following codes. SASL_CONTINUE indicates success and that there are more steps needed in the authentication. SASL_OK indicates that the authentication is complete. All other return codes indicate errors and should either be handled or the authentication session should be quit. CONFORMING TO
RFC 4422 SEE ALSO
sasl(3), sasl_callbacks(3), sasl_errors(3), sasl_client_init(3), sasl_client_new(3), sasl_client_start(3) SASL
10 July 2001 sasl_client_step(3)

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sasl_client_start(3)						  SASL man pages					      sasl_client_start(3)

NAME
sasl_client_start - Begin an authentication negotiation SYNOPSIS
#include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_client_start(sasl_conn_t * conn, const char * mechlist, sasl_interact_t ** prompt_need, const char ** clientout, unsigned * clientoutlen, const char ** mech); DESCRIPTION
sasl_client_start() selects a mechanism for authentication and starts the authentication session. The mechlist is the list of mechanisms the client might like to use. The mechanisms in the list are not necessarily supported by the client or even valid. SASL determines which of these to use based upon the security preferences specified earlier. The list of mechanisms is typically a list of mechanisms the server supports acquired from a capability request. If SASL_INTERACT is returned the library needs some values to be filled in before it can proceed. The prompt_need structure will be filled in with requests. The application should fulfill these requests and call sasl_client_start again with identical parameters (the prompt_need parameter will be the same pointer as before but filled in by the application). mechlist is a list of mechanisms the server has available. Punctuation is ignored. prompt_need is filled in with a list of prompts needed to continue (if necessary). clientout and clientoutlen is created. It is the initial client response to send to the server. It is the job of the client to send it over the network to the server. Any protocol specific encoding (such as base64 encoding) necessary needs to be done by the client. If the protocol lacks client-send-first capability, then set clientout to NULL. If there is no initial client-send, then *clientout will be set to NULL on return. mech contains the name of the chosen SASL mechanism (on success) RETURN VALUE
sasl_client_start returns an integer which corresponds to one of the following codes. SASL_CONTINUE indicates success and that there are more steps needed in the authentication. All other return codes indicate errors and should either be handled or the authentication session should be quit. CONFORMING TO
RFC 4422 SEE ALSO
sasl(3), sasl_callbacks(3), sasl_errors(3), sasl_client_init(3), sasl_client_new(3), sasl_client_step(3) SASL
10 July 2001 sasl_client_start(3)
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