On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Elliot F. wrote:

> LDAP could use cram-md5, you would just have to store the passwords in
> plaintext in the directory.

Our LDAP database for site-wide user authentication is an LDAP for NDS
server on some Netware box. So I don't think that option is open for us :(
Looks like digest-md5 may be helpful, but on first glance I would have to
make some real time to code that. I *think* that this may be possible with
stunnel or the like, but that is currently under investigation.

>  It's easy, if that is what you would want
> to do.  Sun/iPlanet DS 5 has some nice facilities for specifying the
> password encryption scheme, so as to apply plaintext encryption on
> subtrees.  By default, it stores the clear text password in base64, btw.
> All you would need after that is an ACI that allows a certain DN to read
> the password.  The question is whether you would want the directory to
> store passwords in clear text.
>
> If your directory is already initialized, then yes, that would be a
> problem.

Cheers.

>
> Elliot F.
>
>

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