sasl_client_step - Man Page

#include <sasl/sasl.h>

int sasl_client_step(sasl_conn_t *conn,
               const char *serverin,
               unsigned serverinlen,
               sasl_interact_t ** prompt_need,
               const char ** clientout,
               unsigned * clientoutlen);

int sasl_client_step(sasl_conn_t *conn,

const char *serverin,

unsigned serverinlen,

sasl_interact_t ** prompt_need,

const char ** clientout,

unsigned * clientoutlen);

sasl_client_step() performs a step in  the  authentication negotiation.  It returns SASL_OK if the whole negotiation is successful and SASL_CONTINUE if this step is ok but  at least  one more step is needed. A client should not assume an authentication negotiation is successful  just  because the server  signaled  success  via  protocol (i.e. if the server  said  “.  OK Authentication  succeeded”  in  IMAP, sasl_client_step should still be called one more time with a serverinlen of zero.

If SASL_INTERACT is returned the library needs some values to  be  filled  in  before it can proceed. The prompt_need structure will be filled in with requests. The application should  fulfill  these requests and call sasl_client_start again with identical parameters (the prompt_need parameter will  be  the  same pointer as before but filled in by the application).

Parameters

• conn – is the SASL connection context
• serverin – is the data given by the server (decoded  if  the protocol encodes requests sent over the wire)
• serverinlen – is the length of serverin
• clientout – is created. It is  the  initial client  response  to  send to the server. It is the job of the client to send it over the network to the server.  Any protocol  specific encoding (such as base64 encoding) nec‐ essary needs to be done by the client.
• clientoutlen – length of clientout.

SASL  callback  functions should return SASL return codes. See sasl.h for a complete list. SASL_CONTINUE indicates success and that there are more steps needed in the authentication. SASL_OK indicates that the authentication is complete.

Other return codes indicate errors and should either be handled or the authentication session should be quit.

RFC 4422,:saslman:sasl(3), sasl_callbacks(3), sasl_client_init(3), sasl_client_new(3), sasl_client_start(3), sasl_errors(3)

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