Re: sasl problems

--On Friday, March 22, 2013 11:13 PM +0100 Natxo Asenjo 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I am coding a perl dancer web app that will fetch/write info to an
> ldap backend (freeipa.org). The ldap vendor is 389, the old netscape
> ldap server.
>
> This backend includes kerberos.
>
> So without sasl, it works great. But i would like to avoid passwords
> provided we already have a kerberos infrastructure. And I get this
> error:
>
> substr outside of string at
> /opt/perl5/perls/perl-5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.4/Authen/SASL/Perl.pm
> line 333.
>
> Dancer very helpfully displays that line for me:
>
> my $x = $self->{conn}->encode(substr($_[1], $offset || 0, $bsz));
>
> but this tells me very little.
>
> This is a slightly modified script that binds to the ldap server. I
> get an ldap/REALM ticket so I know that piece is working:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use Net::LDAP;
> use Authen::SASL;

Personally I never found Authen::SASL to work well... There used to be a C 
based SASL API that linked to cyrus-sasl for Perl that worked great.  But 
the pure perl SASL implementation had too many issues for me in addition to 
being slow as molasses.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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