sasl-sample-client (8)
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.
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- min=N
- minimum number of bits to use (1 => integrity)
- max=N
- maximum number of bits to use
-
- -e
-
Assume external encryption.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
SEE ALSO
For additional information, please see /usr/share/doc/sasl2-bin/testing.txt
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.