[Spice-devel] [patch 0/2] new auth method AUTH_PLAIN v1

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Can you describe what you are trying to achieve exactly through this
> auth_plain_verify_credentials callback? 
> I assume you want to check the
> (username, password) against 'something' once you got them from the client?

yes

> Can the SASL support already do what you are looking for?

SASL is a very complex beast, and I do not want to run that, because we have our own
library to verify credentials).

And AFAIK SASL does not even compile with mingw, so it is quite useless.