Re: Configuring SASL client

On 05/27/15 13:05 -0700, Jordan Brown wrote:
>I'm sorry, I'm sure this is documented somewhere but I'm just not
>finding it.
>
>When a SASL server application calls
>    result = sasl_server_init(NULL, "myserver");
>the library reads configuration options from /usr/lib/sasl2/myserver.conf.
>
>When a SASL client application calls
>    result = sasl_client_init(NULL);
>there's no program name specified, so what file does it read?

I cannot find it documented either. The code indicates that a NULL
parameter is acceptible. My assumption would be that libsasl would function
as if there were a missing config file and use the defaults.

>(I know that the caller can supply a getopt callback and supply custom
>settings, but the particular caller that I'm interested in - OpenLDAP's
>client - passes in NULL.)