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SASL Authentication Protocol with No Cleartext passwords

As you know, LDAP supports three authentication mechanisms: anonymous, simple and SASL. The first one is only suitable for particular cases, and therefore I'm not going to talk about that. The ...
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LDAP vs MySQL for Usernames and Passwords

I understand the LDAP databases are more secure, but is it always necessary to use LDAP instead of MySQL for usernames and passwords?