I'm not sure what you mean here. Actually we tried using ldap crypt and did not
work. I also turned off the upper case conversion of password from the
security.xreg. Not sure what's going wrong.
--- Ender KILICOGLU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look for userpassword fields at ldap looks like
> crypt{ASADASDASD!@#@!@}
>
> You had to remove "crypt{" to authorize
>
> Ender
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 3:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ldap password issue
>
>
> We have been trying to integrate open ldap with jetspeed 1.4b3. I could
> talk to ldap etc. But the authentication fails beacause of the function
> UnixCrypt.crypt () We had the same password in both ldap and also
> entered the same password thru jetspeed, but it looks like the passwords
> mismatch somehow. I was wondering if the encryption methods have to be
> the same. Could any please throw some light on this.
>
> I looked at the source code and found that ldap authentication class was
> doing this, it took the password from ldap for a given user, took the
> first serven characters off, and sent it to the UnixCrypt.crypt method.
> the crypt method took the 3 characters from this string as salt, and
> tried to encrypt the user entered password and match it. I wasn't sure
> why the first seven characters of the ldap password were removed.
>
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