how to enable digestmd5 and crammd5 ?

Goetz Babin-Ebell goetz at shomitefo.de
Thu Apr 19 08:04:13 EDT 2007


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JOYDEEP schrieb:
> Roberto R. Morelli wrote:
Hello Joydeep,
>>
>> Then we have the cyrus sasl modules installed:
>>
>> cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4
>> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4
>> cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-4
>> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.22-4
> 
> But I have come to know that digest-md5 and cram-md5 need sasldb. so
> here I can't use it as my users and passwords are stored in LDAP.
> any idea ?
The problem is that cram-md5 and digest-md5 need direct access to the
pass phrase in plain text.
AFAIK LDAP doesn't support this.
You have to use TLS if you want to transmit the pass phrase securely...

Bye

Goetz

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