RE: OpenLDAP 2.1 Released

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tarjei Huse [mailto:tarjei@nu.no]

> > So far the provided code only affects slapd. An external shared
> library will
> > be needed to allow other services to work with LDAP. The LDAP support in
> > Cyrus SASL 2.1.3+ is unrelated to this work, and only performs cleartext
> > password validation. The SASL support in slapd handles all forms of SASL
> > authentication.
> So it is not possible to point other sasl enabled programes(f.x. Cyrus
> Imapd) to ldap and get the secure passwords?

Correct. Currently Cyrus SASL only supports LDAP via saslauthd and saslauthd
is only used to validate the PLAIN authentication mechanism. I have an
LDAP-based auxprop plugin in the works, it wasn't ready for this release and
(I think) there are some slapd extensions needed to make it efficient.

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