Re: slapd crypting userPassword attribute

[Vishwanath <vishwanath@inablers.net>]

I am not worried about slapd binding my client application, am using simple
bind method,
rather am worried about the qmail users, whose password is getting crypted.
Actually I used to crypt the password by using crypt() call, and used to
update the 'userPassword'
attribute like this:
    {crypt}vi1Hw/o23gtrm
which qmail-pop3d can use for authentication. Now with Openldap-2.0.15 this
is not happening.

-Vishwanath


Michael Ströder wrote:

> Vishwanath wrote:
> >
> > The problem is when i add entry for qmailuser, the Password gets crypted
> > by itself.
>
> What software are you using to change the password?
>
> > Has this feature been added in 2.0.15, if so how can i disable it.
>
> Anyway you should not change this behaviour. Checking
> username/password is done by a BindRequest and OpenLDAP does the
> right thing for you. The password does not have to be known as
> cleartext to be checked.
>
> > Below is the definition of userPassword attribute in core.schema.
>
> It has also nothing to do with the schema.
>
> Ciao, Michael.