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4.1.1 - Simple Authentication

This authentication mode uses a Simple Bind Request. It's just about sending a name and a password to the server, which will either create a session for the given credentials, or reject the request.

As we said, we have to pass a name and a password. This leads to three different combinations of Simple Bind :

• 4.1.1.1 - Anonymous Authentication
• 4.1.1.2 - Name/Password Authentication
• 4.1.1.3 - Unauthenticated Authentication

The second mechanism is a normal authentication. Not all the servers support the 2 following mechanisms.