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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:53:57PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 01:53:01PM +0200, dietmar at proxmox.com wrote:
> > This adds a very simple authentication method using username/pasword.
> > 
> > The password is not encryped, so this method is only safe if you use TLS.
> 
> 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? Can the SASL support already do what you are looking for?

SASL has a "plain" plugin for straing (username,password) auth, so
this offers no new functionality.

Daniel
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