Authen::SASL::Perl::EXTERNAL(3pm)

Authen::SASL::Perl::EXTERNAL3pm

External authentication class

Usage

  use Authen::SASL qw(Perl);
  $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
    mechanism => 'EXTERNAL',
    callback  => {
      user => $user
    },
  );

Version

version 2.2100

Overview

This method implements the client part of the EXTERNAL SASL algorithm, as described in RFC 2222.

Callback

The callbacks used are:

user

The username to be used for authentication

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0–7
  5. 8–10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Authors

Software written by Graham Barr <[email protected]>, documentation written by Peter Marschall <[email protected]>.

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From perl-authen-sasl 2.2100-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.