perl-authen-sasl

SASL is a generic mechanism for authentication used by several network protocols. *Authen::SASL* provides an implementation framework that all protocols should be able to share. The framework allows different implementations of the connection class to be plugged in. At the time of writing there were two such plugins. * Authen::SASL::Perl This module implements several mechanisms and is implemented entirely in Perl. * Authen::SASL::XS This module uses the Cyrus SASL C-library (both version 1 and 2 are supported). * Authen::SASL::Cyrus This module is the predecessor to Authen::SASL::XS. Until version 2.16, Authen::SASL::Cyrus was loaded as an alternative to Authen::SASL::XS. By default Authen::SASL tries to load Authen::SASL::XS first, followed by Authen::SASL::Perl on failure. If you want to change the order or want to specifically use one implementation only simply do use Authen::SASL qw(Perl); or if you have another plugin module that supports the Authen::SASL API use Authen::SASL qw(My::SASL::Plugin);