Daniel Qarras dqarras@yahoo.com writes:
Hi all,
after spending several days fighting with OpenLDAP2.3/SASL setup I'm finally at point where both sample-client/server and ldapwhoami work for a user who's got his password stored in cleartext in LDAP's userPassword field. I'm using TLS and both PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5 work. However, for a user with his password stored as SSHA has in LDAP's userPassword neither of those work.
It seems that DIGEST-MD5 can only work if both sides have access to the cleartext password, right? Thus, it was expected that DIGEST-MD5 can't work.
But I'm out of clues with PLAIN (over TLS, using a self-signed certificate) as why it doesn't work for a user who's password is in SSHA. The users are testusers I entered, the ldif file used was 1:1, only the uids and passwords were different. I am still missing some basic principle of SASL or what's going on here?
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Think twice! This is not an OpenLDAP issue but a SASL issue, ask on a sasl mailinglist how sasl machanisms are designed and how they retrieve credentials.
-Dieter