Trond Norbye's Weblog
Sunday October 25, 2009
SASL support in Memcached!
I got a merge request for adding SASL support to memcached from Dustin Sallings before the weekend. Luckily for me he had already went a couple of rounds back and forth with dormando fixing some details, so my job reviewing the code was pretty easy resulting in only one minor detail I wanted him to fix before I applied and pushed the patch. We need more documentation of the SASL support, so feel free to submit contributions!
The SASL support requires the binary protocol, so you cannot telnet to the port to test it out. If you enable SASL support, memcached will disable the ASCII protocol.
To build a memcached server with SASL support you need to pass --enable-sasl as an option to configure, and add -S as a parameter to memcached:
trond@storm > ./configure --enable-sasl [ ... cut ... ] checking sasl/sasl.h usability... yes checking sasl/sasl.h presence... yes checking for sasl/sasl.h... yes checking for library containing sasl_server_init... -lsasl2 [ ... cut ... ] trond@storm > ./memcached -S
Right now the only way to play with the SASL support is to test out a development build of the SPY memcached client, or by using the memcached-test program. I would suggest that you start bugging the maintainers of your favorite memcached driver asking for SASL support :-)
Posted at 11:08PM Oct 25, 2009 by trond in Memcached | Comments[5]
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