Authen:...RAM_MD5(3)

👑 Authen::SASL::Perl::CRAM_MD5 — the manual page, bestie edition 💅

okay so you opened the page for Authen::SASL::Perl::CRAM_MD5, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (that's the (3) bit, iykyk). come sit with me, we're doing this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Authen::SASL::Perl::CRAM_MD5 — the (DEPRECATED) CRAM MD5 Authentication class. yeah. she's deprecated. we'll get to that, don't panic 😭

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.2100 — that's the one, no cap ⭐

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole vibe, copy it exactly bestie:

  use Authen::SASL qw(Perl);

  $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
    mechanism => 'CRAM-MD5',
    callback  => {
      user => $user,
      pass => $pass
    },
  );

look at her. mechanism => 'CRAM-MD5', a little callback hash with user and pass. iconic behavior honestly 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this method implements the client part of the CRAM-MD5 SASL algorithm — just the client side, she's not doing the server's job, mind you — exactly as described in RFC 2195, resp. in the IETF Draft draft-ietf-sasl-crammd5-XX.txt. 📜

🚨 okay this is the important part, listen up: this mechanism has been moved to the "LIMITED" use section of the mechanism registry (https://www.iana.org/assignments/sasl-mechanisms/sasl-mechanisms.xhtml) and is effectively deprecated per RFC8314 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8314.html) — see section 5; security considerations. so like… she ate, but she's retired. don't build your whole personality on this one 💀

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🦋 CALLBACK 🦋

the callbacks used are these two, and only these two, periodt:

• user — the username you're gonna use for authentication. that's it, that's the girl 🌸
• pass — the user's password, used for authentication. keep it secret, keep it safe 🔐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're the friends of this page:

• Authen::SASL
• Authen::SASL::Perl

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⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

software written by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, documentation written by Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de>. two icons, one module 🫶

and pls pls pls — please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mailing list <perl-ldap@perl.org>. they wanna hear from you fr fr 📬

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Documentation Copyright (c) 2004 Peter Marschall. All rights reserved. This documentation is distributed, and may be redistributed, under the same terms as Perl itself.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was rendered out of perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-07 — shoutout to the toolchain for stamping it. go forth and authenticate responsibly 🧚✨