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libsasl - simple authentication and security layer library

cc [ flag... ] file... -lsasl [ library... ]
#include <sasl/sasl.h>
#include <sasl/prop.h>
#include <sasl/saslutil.h>

SASL is a security framework used by connection-oriented network applications primarily for authentication. Another way to describe SASL is that it is a glue layer between a network application and some security mechanisms that allow applications to authenticate each other and provide additional security services such as data encryption. As a glue layer, SASL hides the interface specifics of the security mechanism from the application, which allows greater portability and flexibility as new security mechanisms are implemented. SASL is similar to the GSS-API in that it provides a layer of abstraction between an application and one or more security mechanisms.

libsasl provides both an API for applications and an SPI for various plug-ins. To link with this library, specify -lsasl on the cc command line.

The shared object libsasl.so.1 and associated include files provide the public interfaces defined below. The *_t interfaces are function prototypes for callbacks that are defined in the public SASL header files. While libsasl provides default versions for some of the callbacks, this structure allows an application to define its own version of the some of the callback functions.

See Intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

prop_clear	prop_dispose
prop_dup	prop_erase
prop_format	prop_get
prop_getnames	prop_new
prop_request	prop_set
prop_setvals	sasl_authorize_t
sasl_auxprop	sasl_auxprop_add_plugin
sasl_auxprop_getctx	sasl_auxprop_request
sasl_canon_user_t	sasl_canonuser_add_plugin
sasl_chalprompt_t	sasl_checkapop
sasl_checkpass	sasl_client_add_plugin
sasl_client_init	sasl_client_new
sasl_client_plug_init_t	sasl_client_start
sasl_client_step	sasl_decode
sasl_decode64	sasl_dispose
sasl_done	sasl_encode
sasl_encode64	sasl_encodev
sasl_erasebuffer	sasl_errdetail
sasl_errors	sasl_errstring
sasl_getcallback_t	sasl_getopt_t
sasl_getpath_t	sasl_getprop
sasl_getrealm_t	sasl_getsecret_t
sasl_getsimple_t	sasl_global_listmech
sasl_idle	sasl_listmech
sasl_log_t	sasl_server_add_plugin
sasl_server_init	sasl_server_new
sasl_server_plug_init_t	sasl_server_start
sasl_server_step	sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t
sasl_server_userdb_setpass_t	sasl_set_alloc
sasl_set_mutex	sasl_seterror
sasl_setpass	sasl_setprop
sasl_utf8verify	sasl_verifyfile_t
sasl_version

/usr/lib/libsasl.so.1

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving

Intro(3), attributes(5),