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Re: PROBLEM: can't use SASL to authentication openldap client

"LI Ji D" <Ji.d.Li@alcatel-lucent.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 	My problem is that I expect slapd to authenticate with the
> password stored in sasldb. But it's not, it uses the password stored
> in userpassword attribute of this user which is a item of openldap.
> 	So I want to know, how can slapd use password stored in sasldb
> to do the sasl authentication.

Why do you store a password in the directory if you don't make use of
it? To delegate authentication to an external frame work, you should
tell slapd to do so. Please read the admin guide, in particular
section 14.5 Pass-Through authentication.

-Dieter

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