SASL(1)

NAME
Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication base class

SYNOPSIS
 use Authen::SASL;
 $sasl = Authen::SASL->new('CRAM-MD5', password => $pass);

DESCRIPTION
SASL is a generic mechanism for authentication used by several network protocols. Authen::SASL provides an implementation that all protocols should be able to share.

There are many different encryption methods that can be used with SASL. These are implemented as sub-classes of Authen::SASL. For example the package that implements the CRAM-MD5 SASL is called Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5. Note that the - is eplaced with an _. Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5 also inherits from Authen::SASL. This means that the following two statements give identical results

  $sasl = Authen::SASL->new('CRAM-MD5', password => $pass);
  $sasl = Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5->new(password => $pass);
the difference being that the frst one will load the Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5 package for you when this code is run for the first time. If you use the second method then you must require the package yourself.

METHODS

SEE ALSO
Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5

AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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