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pear/auth\_sasl
===============

Abstraction of various SASL mechanism responses

v1.2.0(2y ago)111.1M↓19.8%4[3 issues](https://github.com/pear/Auth_SASL/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/pear/Auth_SASL/pulls)7BSD-3-ClausePHP

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Auth\_SASL - Abstraction of various SASL mechanism responses
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[](#auth_sasl---abstraction-of-various-sasl-mechanism-responses)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a5feb51f8985731bacff9d319671ad3eefa221938784980d0e3cda8f99d69823/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f706561722f417574685f5341534c2e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/pear/Auth_SASL)

Provides code to generate responses to common SASL mechanisms, including:

- Anonymous
- Cram-MD5 (DEPRECATED)
- Digest-MD5 (DEPRECATED)
- External
- Login (Pseudo mechanism) (DEPRECATED)
- Plain
- SCRAM

[Homepage](http://pear.php.net/package/Auth_SASL/)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

For a PEAR installation that downloads from the PEAR channel:

`$ pear install pear/auth_sasl`

For a PEAR installation from a previously downloaded tarball:

`$ pear install Auth_SASL-*.tgz`

For a PEAR installation from a code clone:

`$ pear install package.xml`

For a local composer installation:

`$ composer install`

To add as a dependency to your composer-managed application:

`$composer require pear/auth_sasl`

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

Run the tests from a local composer installation:

`$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit`

License
-------

[](#license)

BSD license

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance15

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community29

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~827 days

Total

4

Last Release

879d ago

Major Versions

v1.2.0 → v2.0.0.x-dev2023-12-21

### Community

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###  Code Quality

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