-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:59 PM
To: Craig White; jeevan kc; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Openldap password problems

--On Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:53 PM +0000 Craig White 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> No

I disagree.  Setting the default to {CRYPT} is a security nightmare, regardless 
of what the application is doing.  If the application is
(correctly) using an ldapv3 password modify op, it'll get set to CRYPT on the 
openldap server due to their (broken) configuration.

Better solution is to ensure the openldap default is sane, and to also verify 
the web application is sane.
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Yes, sorry - don't mean to disagree with your thinking. I gathered he thought 
he could just change the terms from crypt to sha or ssha and that OpenLDAP 
would take care of it automatically.

Yes, crypt is ancient and easily defeated I gather (never tried myself). Yes, 
changing the default scheme is good but we don't know how he is creating 
users/passwords.

Craig

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