Thank you for the details. Is there work going on to determine the correct strength for GSSAPI ? 56 bit is there only because very old implementation did only DES. Now you can have RC4, AES, etc...

Thank you
Markus

"Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Markus Moeller wrote:
Dieter,

It  doesn't work as you described or GSSAPI is weaker than DIGEST-MD5

With /etc/sasl2/slapd.conf
mech_list: gssapi digest-md5 external

I get:

# ldapsearch -h localhost -b "" -s base +
SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
Please enter your password:

Markus,

SASL is a server-offers - client-chooses specification. DIGEST-MD5 is a 256 bit mechanism and GSSAPI is a 56 bit mechanism, so DIGEST-MD5 may be preferred if no mechanism, or security properties, are specified.

See the manpage for ldap.conf to force a default SASL mechanism for the OpenLDAP client utilities.

You can put 'SASL_MECH GSSAPI' within ~/.ldaprc.

- Dan



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