sasl_server_start - Begin an authentication negotiation
#include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_server_start(sasl_conn_t * conn, const char * mech, const char * clientin, unsigned * clientinlen, const char ** serverout, unsigned * serveroutlen);
sasl_server_start(3sasl) SASL man pages sasl_server_start(3sasl) NAME sasl_server_start - Begin an authentication negotiation SYNOPSIS #include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_server_start(sasl_conn_t * conn, const char * mech, const char * clientin, unsigned * clientinlen, const char ** serverout, unsigned * serveroutlen); DESCRIPTION sasl_server_start() begins the authentication with the mechanism speci- fied with mech. This fails if the mechanism is not supported. SASL_OK is returned if the authentication is complete and the user is authenti- cated. SASL_CONTINUE is returned if one or more steps are still required in the authentication. All other return values indicate fail- ure. conn is the SASL context for this connection mech is the mechanism name that the client requested clientin is the client initial response, NULL if the protocol lacks support for client-send-first or if the other end did not have an ini- tial send. Note that no initial client send is distinct from an ini- tial send of a null string, and the protocol MUST account for this dif- ference. clientinlen is the length of initial response serverout is created by the plugin library. It is the initial server response to send to the client. This is allocated/freed by the library and it is the job of the client to send it over the network to the server. Also protocol specific encoding (such as base64 encoding) must needs to be done by the server. serveroutlen is set to the length of initial server challenge RETURN VALUE sasl_server_start returns an integer which corresponds to one of the SASL errorcodes. SASL_OK indicates that authentication is completed successfully. SASL_CONTINUE indicates success and that there are more steps needed in the authentication. All other return codes indicate errors and should either be handled or the authentication session should be quit. CONFORMING TO RFC 4422 ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+----------------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+----------------------------------+ |Availability | system/library/security/libsasl2 | +---------------+----------------------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+----------------------------------+ SEE ALSO sasl(3SASL), sasl_errors(3SASL), sasl_server_init(3SASL), sasl_server_new(3SASL), sasl_server_step(3SASL) NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus- sasl-2.1.26.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.cyrusimap.org/sasl/. SASL 10 July 2001 sasl_server_start(3sasl)