RE: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-ldap-authpasswd-00.txt

["Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>]

It's not clear from this draft who has access to the clear text password.

The definition of authPasswordMatch uses the same syntax as the authPassword
attribute.  One of these must contain the clear text password if the server
is going to recompute the hash.

Perhaps there should be another syntax, authPasswordMatchValue defined as:
    scheme "$" [ info ] "$" clearTextValue.

It would also be able to explain how this attribute is used in conjunction
with an Ldap bind (or refer to an appropriate document).


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org [mailto:Internet-Drafts@ietf.org]
 > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 6:57 AM
 > Cc: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
 > Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-ldap-authpasswd-00.txt
 > 
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 > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line 
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 > 
 > 	Title		: LDAP Authentication Password Attribute
 > 	Author(s)	: K. Zeilenga
 > 	Filename	: draft-zeilenga-ldap-authpasswd-00.txt
 > 	Pages		: 7
 > 	Date		: 21-Dec-99
 > 	
 > This document describes schema for storing authentication 
 > passwords in
 > a LDAP [RFC2251] directory.  The document provides schema definitions
 > for authPassword and related schema definitions.  The authPassword is
 > meant to used instead of clear text password storage mechanisms such
 > as userPassword [RFC2256].  The attribute may be used to store SASL
 > [RFC2222] authentication passwords in entries of a directory.
 > 
 > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
 > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-authp
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