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Re: Authmeth/DIGEST-MD5

To: "Paul Leach (Exchange)" <paulle@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Authmeth/DIGEST-MD5
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:41:32 -0700
Cc: RL 'Bob' Morgan <rlmorgan@cac.washington.edu>, ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
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"Paul Leach (Exchange)" wrote:
> I still don't get it. Does the user have accounts _with the same user name_
> in all those DITs? Or even more than one of them?
> 
> A realm is not a DIT. There can be many DITs in a single realm.

And there can be many realms in a DIT.  Giving the user a long list to
realms to choose from makes no sense if the directory service has stored
the hash of user:realm:password for a small subset of the possible realms
the server might be aware of.

Kurt

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- RE: Authmeth/DIGEST-MD5
  - From: "Paul Leach (Exchange)" <paulle@Exchange.Microsoft.com>

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