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A.2. Authentication Methods
- Anonymous SASL Mechanism (RFC 4505)
- Not supported. Note that RFC 4512 does not require the
ANONYMOUSSASL mechanism. However, Directory Server support LDAP anonymous binds. - External SASL Mechanism (RFC 4422)
- Supported.
- Plain SASL Mechanism (RFC 4616)
- Not supported. Note that RFC 4512 does not require the
PLAINSASL mechanism. However, Directory Server support LDAP anonymous binds. - SecurID SASL Mechanism (RFC 2808)
- Not supported. However if a Cyrus SASL plug-in exists, Directory Server is able to use it.
- Kerberos V5 (GSSAPI) SASL Mechanism (RFC 4752)
- Supported.
- CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism (RFC 2195)
- Supported.
- Digest-MD5 SASL Mechanism (RFC 2831)
- Supported.
- One-time Password SASL Mechanism (RFC 2444)
- Not supported. However if a Cyrus SASL plug-in exists, Directory Server is able to use it.

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