Hi Michael and Dieter,
I see the below mail, can I understand only the mirror mode replication can’t use the HASH password in rootpw, other Synchronous replication mode(example: syncrepl proxy) can use the HASH password? Thanks and regards tiangexuan ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ 发件人: "Michael Ströder";<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 发送时间: 2014年3月5日(星期三) 下午4:09 收件人: "Dieter Klünter"<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; "openldap-technical"<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 主题: Re: mirror mode & sasl question Dieter Klünter wrote: > Am Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:38:04 +0800 > schrieb "Eileen(=^ω^=)" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: >> This is Eileen from China SINAP. I am a beginner for openldap soft. I >> encountered a problem in my study on two LDAP services replication. >> I have 2 LDAP services, one name LDPA1, the other is LDAP2 . I want >> to make them synchronously in mirror mode. But when I set LDAP >> services rootpw both in hash, the 2 LDAP serivces can’t be >> synchronous. My question is >> 1. if I set my rootpw in hash, my bindmethod must be SASL? If I >> must use sasl method, can I put the sasl service in the same ldap >> service? If bindmethod=sasl then what is the saslmech should be? >> 2. If I change to sasl method, do I need change my database >> record? > > In order to use sasl, passwords must be cleartext and you should > configure an apropriate authz-regexp, see man slapd.conf(5) > You may use any sasl mechanism that you sasl framework provides. > [...] To be more precise: In order to use password-based SASL mechs the passwords have to be stored in clear-text. Well, if working with SASL and TLS (LDAPS, StartTLS) one should consider using client certs and SASL/EXTERNAL for replication. Ciao, Michael.
