The ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism provides the ability for clients to
perform an anonymous bind using a SASL mechanism.
The only real
benefit that this provides over a normal anonymous bind (that is,
using simple authentication with no password) is that the ANONYMOUS
SASL mechanism also allows the client to include a trace string in
the request. This trace string can help identify the application that
performed the bind (although since there is no authentication,
there is no assurance that some other client did not spoof that
trace string).
ds-cfg-anonymous-sasl-mechanism-handler
ds-cfg-sasl-mechanism-handler
org.opends.server.extensions.AnonymousSASLMechanismHandler