Re: Options of OpenLDAP 2.3.3x configure

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

disable-passwd/enable-passwd are for back-passwd. There's a 
slapd-passwd(5) man page for documentation.

"cleartext" and "spasswd" are password hashing schemes. The cleartext hash 
scheme does exactly what it sounds like, i.e. {CLEARTEXT}password for 
credentials of "password".

The spasswd scheme allows the use of SASL for simple binds. Basically, if 
you have userPassword: {SASL}uid@REALM.EXAMPLE.COM, then you get the same 
result as "testsaslauthd -s slapd -r REALM.EXAMPLE.COM -u uid -p 
password." {SASL} is the scheme implemented with --enable-spasswd.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, openldap.lists@frei-family.ch wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is maybe a silly newbie question and I do apologize if so.
>
> Im digging through the options of OpenLDAP 2.3.3x configure and so far I 
> basically found the output of "configure --help" as the only information 
> available. I also browsed through the Admin Guide, Faq-O-Matic and googled 
> but only seemed to find the same help output over and over.
>
> What I'm after is a description of the effects which is more comprehensive 
> than the help of configure, i.e. what are the consequences if I 
> enable/disable a certain option.
>
> Especially I'm interested in knowing about the effects of the options
> --disable-cleartext
> --disable-spasswd
> --disable-passwd
>
> Can anyone provide a pointer to such information ?
>
> Thanks
>
> CF