Name: draft-melnikov-ldap-distr-auth-00
Title: Distributed SASL authentication in LDAP
State: Active
Authors: Alexey Melnikov, Kurt Zeilenga
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-07-13
This document was prompted by a desire to allow deployments of distributed
SASL implementations, so that all authentication can be performed in a one
central place. It tries to fulfill the following requirements: 1) The SASL
framework is client/server authentication, but it doesn't preclude either
the client or the server implementations from being distributed. 2) It
might be also desirable to proxy an authentication exchange whether it was
initiated over LDAP or another SASL-supporting protocol. This document
defines a Distributed Authentication LDAP extended operation, that enables
applications (including LDAP proxies and gateways) that authenticate using
SASL, to use LDAP for performing authentication, by forwarding the SASL
authentication requests to an LDAP server.
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