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Id: 21762
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Authen-SASL-Cyrus

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: howard [...] cohtech.com
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Bug Information
Severity: Critical
Broken in: 0.13-server
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: client_new does not select mechanism
The client_new function is suppoed to determine which mechanism to use and set the mechanism string on the connection. It does not do the later and hence the interchange with a server is broken. The Perl version Authen::SASL::Perl does this correctly, but this means you end up using Perl on the client end and Cyrus on the server end which means a client cannot also be a server ...