GSASL(1) User Commands GSASL(1)

gsasl - SASL library command line interface

gsasl [OPTION]... [HOST [PORT]]...

Authenticate user to a server using Simple Authentication and Security Layer. Currently IMAP and SMTP servers are supported. This is a command line interface for the GNU SASL library.

Print help and exit
Print version and exit

Act as client. (default=on)
Act as server. (default=off)
Write name of supported client mechanisms separated by space to stdout. (default=off)
Write name of supported server mechanisms separated by space to stdout. (default=off)
Derive password. Provide --mechanism as SCRAM-SHA-1 or SCRAM-SHA-256. The required inputs are password (through --password or read from terminal) and optional inputs are iteration count (through --iteration-count, or defaulting to 65536) and salt (through --salt, or generated randomly). The output is a string of the form "{mech}count,salt,stored-key,server-key[,salted-password]" where "mech" is the mechanism, "count" is the number of times password was hashed, "salt" is the provided/generated base64-encoded salt, "stored-key" and "server-key" are the two derived and base64-encoded server-side keys. When --verbose is provided, "salted-password" will be included as the hex-encoded PBKDF2-derived password. (default=off)

Connect to TCP server and negotiate on stream instead of stdin/stdout. PORT is the protocol service, or an integer denoting the port, and defaults to 143 (imap) if not specified. Also sets the --hostname default.

After authentication, read data from stdin and run it through the mechanism's security layer and print it base64 encoded to stdout. The default is to terminate after authentication. (default=on)
Use a IMAP-like logon procedure (client only). Also sets the --service default to 'imap'. (default=off)
Use a SMTP-like logon procedure (client only). Also sets the --service default to 'smtp'. (default=off)
Mechanism to use.
Disallow client to send data first (client only). (default=off)

Token for anonymous authentication, usually mail address (ANONYMOUS only).
Identity of credential owner.

-z, --authorization-id=STRING Identity to request service for.

Password for authentication (insecure for non-testing purposes).
Realm. Defaults to hostname.
Passcode for authentication (SECURID only).
Set the requested service name (should be a registered GSSAPI host based service name).
Set the name of the server with the requested service.
Set the generic server name in case of a replicated server (DIGEST-MD5 only).
Validate CRAM-MD5 challenge and response
(default=off)
Disable cleartext validate hook, forcing server
(default=off)
How application payload will be protected.
'qop-auth' means no protection, 'qop-int'
means integrity protection, 'qop-conf' means integrity and confidentialiy protection. Currently only used by DIGEST-MD5, where the default is 'qop-int'.
Indicate PBKDF2 hash iteration count (SCRAM only). (default=`65536')
Indicate PBKDF2 salt as base64-encoded string (SCRAM only).
Salted SCRAM password for authentication (SCRAM
64 characters for SCRAM-SHA-256).

Force use of STARTTLS. The default is to use STARTTLS when available. (default=off)
Unconditionally disable STARTTLS. (default=off)
Don't use channel bindings from TLS. (default=off)
File containing one or more X.509 Certificate Authorities certificates in PEM format, used to verify the certificate received from the server. If not specified, verification uses system trust settings. If FILE is the empty string, don't fail on X.509 server certificates verification errors.
File containing client X.509 certificate in PEM format. Used together with --x509-key-file to specify the certificate/key pair.
Private key for the client X.509 certificate in PEM format. Used together with --x509-key-file to specify the certificate/key pair.
Cipher priority string.

Produce verbose output. (default=off)
Don't produce any diagnostic output. (default=off)

Written by Simon Josefsson.

Report bugs to: bug-gsasl@gnu.org
GNU SASL home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/
General help using GNU software: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/

Copyright © 2024 Simon Josefsson. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

The full documentation for gsasl is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and gsasl programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info gsasl

should give you access to the complete manual.

January 2024 GNU SASL 2.2.0.35-d394d