Re: Access Rights in SLAPD.CONF

[Ingo Luetkebohle <ingo@devconsult.de>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Alan Sparks wrote:
> There is traditionally a uid and userpassword attribute associated (by the
> schema) with any entry that can be bound to.  Whatever schema you use, those
> attributes need to be there.

Only "userpassword" is required, the DN makes up the name. Most
implementations try to find the username typed in via the "uid" field, but
thats not mandatory.

Additionally, OpenLDAP does support encryped passwords by various methods.
Prefix your value with {crypt}, {sha} or {md5}

Ingo