def _authenticate_plain(credentials, sock_info):
    """Authenticate using SASL PLAIN (RFC 4616)
    """
    source = credentials.source
    username = credentials.username
    password = credentials.password
    payload = ('\x00%s\x00%s' % (username, password)).encode('utf-8')
    cmd = SON([('saslStart', 1),
               ('mechanism', 'PLAIN'),
               ('payload', Binary(payload)),
               ('autoAuthorize', 1)])
    sock_info.command(source, cmd)