RE: [JunkMail] Re: authentication with ldap

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Dieter Kluenter

> Geert Reijnders <reijnders@nlcom.nl> writes:
> > And of course I can't login with the users I created in my ldap
> > database.
> >
> > Does any one know what to do or what I'm missing?
>
> How did you create passwords?
> pam expects to have cleartext passwords. You probabely should add
> 'password-hash {CLEARTEXT}'
> to slapd.conf, prior to adding any passwords.

Wrong. PAM doesn't know or care what hash is used by LDAP. It performs an
LDAP Bind, and the LDAP server does whatever it needs to do to validate the
Bind.

This sounds like pam.conf has not been set up correctly. This topic belongs
on some other mailing list, like pamldap@padl.com.

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