Sorry, I had read the thread and could not identify what was going 
on. I got it now.

The information below is VERY helpful.

Thanks very much.

Lai


On 27 Oct 2003 at 2:27, Matt Sapp wrote:  

> Sigh.  We just went over this last week in the LEAP+LDAP thread.  If
> you use the "password_attribute" setting in LDAP, it takes whatever
> value it gets from that attribute to be the password.  This breaks
> anything that requires ntPassword. 


 
> So, for doing CHAP, If you have both userPassword and ntPassword
> defined for a given dn, the userPassword is prefered, unless it is not
> specified with the password_attribute, then the ntPassword will be
> used.  If the userPassword has anything other than the cleartext
> password in it, then CHAP will not work. 
> 
> I'd say your best bet would be 2 LDAP instances, one for PAP that
> specifies "password_attribute=userPassowrd" (or whatever is correct
> for your implementation), and then a different one for CHAP that does
> not specify "password_attribute", and will then use the ntPassword
> attribute. 
> 
> To select from different auth sources (ie: 2 LDAP intances), look at
> doc/Autz-Type.  In fact, this exact situation is describe with 2 ldap
> instances in that file. 
> 
> -Matt MNU Internet System Administrator MNU Network Security
> Administrator 
> 
> 


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