On 10/07/11 17:08 -0300, Friedrich Locke wrote:
Hi,
i have installed and configured openldap and so far, so good. But i have a simple doubt.
Up to now, all users i have added to the ldap server have a field:
userPassword: {SASL}user@domain
I am connecting to retrieve the entry attributes with the following command:
ldapsearch -x -w PASSWORD -D uid=user,ou=people,dc=my,dc=domain -b uid=user,ou=people,dc=my,dc=domain
And everyting works ok. My doubt is:
who is performing the password checking? The openldap serverdaemon (slapd) ou the ldapsearch ?
When userPassword is configured with '{SASL}user@domain', you are using SASL pass-through authentication. See section 14.5 (Pass-Through authentication) of the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide for documentation.
In such a scenario, authentication is ultimately handled by the libsasl2 glue layer, and is controlled by the configuration of your sasl slapd.conf file, which is typically found in /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf.
Presumably you've configured pass-through authentication because of a need to authenticate against a saslauthd daemon (pwcheck_method: saslauthd).