Sendmail/SASL2/saslauthdb problem

[Rob Szarka]

At 07:29 AM 6/12/2006, jflowers wrote:
>On FreeBSD mmencode can't be used, even with
>printf for 'auth plain' because it can't handle the null (\0) characters
>required.  At least I couldn't figure out how to do it. My solution was to use
>perl with MIME::Base64 installed as in:

Another alternative, apparently, is

printf "foo" | openssl base64

I didn't think of it at the time, but then I read July's issue of 
Linux Journal.  :)