SASL EXTERNAL in smbldap.c

[Alexey Lobanov]

Hello all.

I found a quite interesting strings in smbldap.c:

/*******************************************************************
 connect to the ldap server under system privilege.
******************************************************************/
static int smbldap_connect_system(struct smbldap_state *ldap_state, LDAP
* ldap_struct)

................

/* removed the sasl_bind_s "EXTERNAL" stuff, as my testsuite
(OpenLDAP) doesnt' seem to support it */


The questions are: who and when wrote it? And how to see this stuff
again? SASL EXTERNAL works fine in modern Linux-based systems, both
through Unix sockets (ldapi://) and through SSL (ldaps://).

The aim is obvious: to remove plaintext administrative passwords from
any files...

Alexey