Re: use proprietary password hash in "userpassword"

[Meike Stone <meike.stone@googlemail.com>]

2017-01-19 12:31 GMT+01:00 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>:
> Meike Stone wrote:
>>

>> Write a openldap modul like pw-sha2 is not the first choice, because
>> we need to compile the openldap after each update on our own and that
>> prevents us to use the distribution packages.
>
>
> Writing an OpenLDAP module like pw-sha2 is precisely the way to write a
> small external binary to validate passwords.
>
> There's no need to recompile all of OpenLDAP just to update a password
> module.

If I use the binary openldap package from the distributor (*1), and I
like to use a own module,
I don't have to recompile the whole openldap, compiling the module is
sufficient?

(1) we think about a subscription from symas ...

Thanks Meike