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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:30:09PM +0000, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > SASL has a "plain" plugin for straing (username,password) auth, so this offers no
> > new functionality.
> 
> But it offers that functionality without the requirement of SASL.

Which is just re-inventing the wheel.  IMHO re-inventing wheels is
bad, particularly when security is involved.

Daniel
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