Parameters password in Cleartext using ldap as backend for for authentication

[Reinaldo de Carvalho]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Lucas Zinato Carraro<lucaszc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I  have a mail cluster with  cyrus murder (imap agreggator ) .
>
> In some machines   "imapd.conf "  has some passwords parameters  in  "clear
> text"
>
> .....
>
> mail1_password: secret
>
> mail2_password: secret
>
> mupdate_password: topsecret
> .......
>
>
> I use ldap as backend for cyrus sasl
> and I have "murder user"  and "backends users"  defined in ldap.
>
> Exist anyway to encrypt this parameters ??
>

This is a chicken or the egg problem.

>
> In my architeture actually is inpossible to use kerberos :-(
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lucas Zinato Carraro
> DATAPREV
>

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