[dovecot] Re: 0.99.8-test7

David E. Storey
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:10:58 -0000

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 20:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Dovecot's LDAP support currently requires that it can read the
> userPassword field of every user. I'm not sure if I should support
> "authentication binds" that seems to be more standard way to do
LDAP
> authentication. That's just slower, works only with plaintext
> authentication and makes my code more complex.

authentication binds are the only "across the board" method for
authenticating users i know of. yes, they are slow. suppose i'm
authenticating against active directory. i know of no way to expose the
userPassword attribute in ad. personally, i wouldn't go near ad, but i
don't really have much of a choice in the matter. at best, you could
probably get compare rights. authentication binds mean i can support
whatever hashing mechanism my ldap server supports without exposing the
value itself.

d!
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