SASL support was added for the legacy Python API but has not been integrated into the newly introduced messaging API.
The feature was implemented, qpid.messaging's Connection now contains the sasl_mechanism, sasl_service, sasl_min_ssf, sasl_max_ssf. Testing proved that qpid high level API python client authenticates to broker. Tested on RHEL 4.8 / 5.5 i386 / x86_64 on packages: python-qmf-0.7.946106-13.el5 python-qpid-0.7.946106-14.el5 qmf-*0.7.946106-17.el5 qpid-cpp-*-0.7.946106-17.el5 qpid-dotnet-0.4.738274-2.el5 qpid-java-*-0.7.946106-10.el5 qpid-tools-0.7.946106-11.el5 ruby-qmf-0.7.946106-17.el5 ruby-qpid-0.7.946106-2.el5 -> VERIFIED
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: The Python Messaging API now includes support for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), which allows authentication support to be added to connection-based protocols.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0773.html