On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mike Cathey wrote:

> Chris,
>
>
> Chris Parker wrote:
> > At 12:17 PM 3/21/2002 -0500, Mike Cathey wrote:
> >
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> The qmail-ldap (<http://www.nrg4u.com>) code (actually IIRC it's the
> >> auth code) supports 2 menthods of LDAP auth.  One method attempts to
> >> bind to the directory as the user, which is what it sounds like
> >> FreeRADIUS does.  The other methold is to bind to the directory as a
> >> privileged user (one who has access to all user attributes), crypt
> >> what the client handed you and compare it to userPassword.
> >
> >
> > The client hands you an already ( and non-reversable ) encrypted string.
> > Encrypting it a second time will yield nothing useful.
> >
> >> I may be possible to implement the second method in FreeRADIUS and use
> >> it for LDAP/CHAP auth.  Comments?
> >
> >
> > The only way to perform CHAP authentication is for the server to have
> > access to the unecrypted password locally.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't suggesting you uss crypt with LDAP/CHAP.  I was just
> pointing out the method of binding as a privileged user (a user who has
> rights to access the userPassword attribute for the RADIUS users).  You
> can then get the value of userPassword and send the 'challenge' back to
> the proxy.  I haven't read docs on CHAP in a while, but it seems like
> this would work ok.  Of course, this assumes you store all of your users
> passwords in plain text.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

It's already supported. Please read the FAQ at
http://www.freeradius.org/faq/#5.11

and doc/rlm_ldap

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