From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <546981BE.90704@gr13.net> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:03:58 +0100 From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "9f >> Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL Topicbox-Message-UUID: 289dcd8a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi folks, I've got the impression that there're some similarities between SASL (saslauthd) and Factotum - at least at the point that both are offloading actual authentication handshakes to a separate service. But I have to admit that I didn't have done a deeper analysis of these two. Could anybody with deeper insight perhaps give some detailed comparison between them ? greetings, -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287