Re: Confused about md5 passwords

[Stephan Siano <stephan.siano@suse.de>]

On Wednesday, 12. December 2001 17:39, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Stephan, Peter,
>    Thanks, for the response. Does the same go for SHA, and do you know if
> nss_ldap even supports SHA? I definetely don't want to switch to Kerberos.

Hi,
for authentication purposes the hash algorithm does not matter. For simple 
authentication you always transfer the clear text password and the 
LDAP-server has to support the hash algorithm.

Yours,
Stephan Siano

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