This section is relevant for developers who are creating their own client library that communicates with the Couchbase Server. For instance, developers creating a library for language or framework that is not yet supported by Couchbase would be interested in this content.

In order to connect to a given bucket you need to run a SASL authentication with the Couchbase server. The SASL authentication for Couchbase is specified in SASLAuthProtocol (binary protocol only).

vbucketmigrator implements SASL Authentication by using libsasl in C if you want some example code.