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NAME

       Authen::SASL::Perl::PLAIN - Plain Login Authentication class

SYNOPSIS

         use Authen::SASL qw(Perl);

         $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
           mechanism => 'PLAIN',
           callback  => {
             user => $user,
             pass => $pass
           },
         );

DESCRIPTION

       This method implements the client and server part of the PLAIN SASL algorithm, as
       described in RFC 2595 resp. IETF Draft draft-ietf-sasl-plain-XX.txt

   CALLBACK
       The callbacks used are:

       Client

       authname
           The authorization id to use after successful authentication (client)

       user
           The username to be used for authentication (client)

       pass
           The user's password to be used for authentication.

       Server

       checkpass(username, password, realm)
           returns true and false depending on the validity of the credentials passed in
           arguments.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::SASL, Authen::SASL::Perl

AUTHORS

       Software written by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, documentation written by Peter
       Marschall <peter@adpm.de>.

       Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mailing list
       <perl-ldap@perl.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002-2004 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.

       Documentation Copyright (c) 2004 Peter Marschall.  All rights reserved.  This
       documentation is distributed, and may be redistributed, under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

       Server support Copyright (c) 2009 Yann Kerherve.  All rights reserved. This program is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.