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Re: how to add users to LDAP and test authentication?



Mary Kao wrote:
> How does LDAP know where to search for the user password provided by Apache? 

If Apache validates the user's password by sending a simple bind request with
clear-text password (most usual case) then slapd internally reads the password
(hash) from attribute 'userPassword' and checks that against the clear-text
password in the simple bind request.

Ciao, Michael.

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