Thanks, Ender. After we added {crypt} to the password the ldap authentication
started working. Now we are trying to setup psml as part of the ldap. Thanks
for your help.

Vijay


--- Vijay K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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