Re: what is simple bind?

[Hans Zauner <refuzun@yahoo.com>]

so when using simple bind, there is no protection
whatsoever?
it asks for a password, which it checks against whats
in the slapd.conf, correct?

but that is it?  if I wanted to use SASL what would I
need to do?  it would add encryption to traversing
data?  SASL is not related to password checking?

thank you,

hans zauner
refuzun@yahoo.com




--- "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
> At 08:06 AM 10/31/00 -0800, Hans Zauner wrote:
> >I had some troubles getting ldapadd to authenticate
> >with slapd (Im using SASL/TSL) and I posted to this
> >list.  I was told to use -x for simple bind (which
> >worked) however I am curious.
> >
> >What is simple bind?
> 
> Simple bind refers to the DN/password authentication
> mechanism supported by both LDAPv2 and LDAPv3.  This
> mechanism offers integrity or confidentiality
> protection.
> 
> >I've read the FAQ and I used the ldapadd command
> >syntax as described there, (which didn't work)
> however
> >it did not mention -x (simple bind) at all.
> 
> The FAQ details OpenLDAP 1.2 which doesn't require
> the -x.
> OpenLDAP 2.0 requires -x to avoid the defaulting to
> SASL
> based authentication and security services.
> 


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