Is the slapd.conf file in the correct directory? Is openldap compiled with sasl support? and 3rd, OpenLDAP will only use the sasl backend when doing a sasl bind.. when doing s simple bind it will ONLY use the internal userpassword field (AFAIK). On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 01:28, Craig Gallek wrote: > I'm having trouble with the slapd authentication mechanism. I have > successfully managed to get slapd to authenticate a user through the > PLAIN mechanism authenticating against the userPassword field of a > directory entry. I have also successfully installed SASL and the > saslauthd. I have configured saslauthd to authenticate against the PAM > modules on my machine. testsaslauthd successfully authenticates against > the local shadow password database. > > Now I am trying to make slapd authenticate against saslauthd (or even > directly using the SASL PAM libraries) rather than against the > userPassword field in the directory. I've tried setting the > pwcheck_method in slapd.conf to saslauthd. This did not seem to have > any effect on the authentication process or the output log information. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Edward Rudd <eddie@omegaware.com> Home Page <http://urkle.drip.ws/>
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