Re: Bind using credentials from another directory server

[manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> > Some time ago, I wrote a custom LDAP backend for hijacking
> > authentication. My goal was to redirect it to a RADIUS server, but you
> > could modify my code to authenticate against anything else.
> 
> For the specific case of RADIUS, a full backend is not needed. If your users
> already have LDAP entries, you can set their userpassword to use the {RADIUS}
> scheme which will cause a RADIUS server to be used for Simple Bind 
> authentication. That code is in the contrib/slapd-modules/passwd directory in
> HEAD and will also be in 2.4.

I guess it did not exist at the time I hacked ldap2radius. Or I did not
find it at that time.

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