Re: md5 crypt hashed passwords on linux openldap server

[Jehan PROCACCIA <Jehan.Procaccia@int-evry.fr>]

Branko F. Grac(nar wrote:
> > This appears to me to be the same issue that I (and quite a few others)
> > have run across before. The fix was to change the order of things in the
> > XXLIBS part of the Makefile. On openldap 2.0.xx the way to make this
> > work is:
> >
> >          XXLIBS = $(LDBM_LIBS) $(SLAPD_LIBS) \
> >                 $(LUTIL_LIBS) \
> >                 $(SECURITY_LIBS) \
> >                 $(LDIF_LIBS)
>
>
> Thanks for the hint, but openldap 2.1.x doesn't define XXLIBS in Makefile at 
> all. However, i checked out crypt(3) manpage, where is mentioned, that you 
> can use MD5 password *only if program is linked with -lcrypt"
>
> ...so i set LDFLAGS="-lcrypt" brefore running configure and then recompiled, 
> now everything works ok.
>
> Thanks again, Brane

You just need to tell it to configure script !.

[root@corne /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/openldap-2.1.12]
$ ./configure --help | grep crypt
    --enable-crypt	  enable crypt(3) passwords [no]