--On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:21 AM +0000 Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

To do it in other than clear text, you use LDAP over SSL by connecting
to ldaps://

To make it clear - this is *not* generally required by servers.

And connecting over LDAPS is not the only way to encrypt the connection. There is TLS over port 389, for example, and also some SASL mechanisms do the encryption themselves (like SASL/GSSAPI for example).

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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