SASL and OpenLDAP with SSL

Howard Chu hyc at highlandsun.com
Thu Jul 5 07:11:00 EDT 2007


Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Mihai Barbos <mihai.barbos at eurospider.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Can someone please help me with the following (annoying) problem:
>> I've got a saslauthd connecting to ldap on CentOS 5.0. With tls
>> disabled everything seems to work OK. With tls enabled, the connection
>> to LDAP is established OK but the authentication fails. LDAP
>> (openldap) reports TLS established and then UNBIND.
>>
>> Does it ring any bell to anyone ? Any idea is welcome. Of course I can
>> post any configuration that might be of interest.
> 
> Did you create the values of attribute type userpasswd with a hashing
> scheme like CRYPT or SSHA?

The password scheme couldn't cause the difference in behavior between a 
plaintext session and a TLS session.
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