Re: md5 authentication

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 06:28 PM 6/1/00 +0200, Christian Rimpau wrote:
>How do I create the MD5-encrytion?

Read http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=347 and
referenced document and then s/SHA1?/MD5/

>Is there a tool (beside that perl module that I didn't get running) ??

See ldappasswd(1)...  (the code provides an example of how to
integrate generation into your client).

>And is it the case that my OpenLAP version supports CRAM-MD5 only?

CRAM-MD5 is a SASL mechanism, SASL is an LDAPv3 feature, OpenLDAP
1.x doesn't support LDAPv3.  Hence:

> When
>I try to set the encrytion method via JNDI I always get
>javax.naming.AuthenticationNotSupportedException or the [LDAP: error
>code 2 - version not supported].
>TIA
>Chris
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