Re: [Exim] Concept of LDAP usage

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Concept of LDAP usage
Jan-Piet Mens <jpm@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
>
>> along the llines of logging into the LDAP server with some kind of
>> superuser then doing a lookup of the credentials and comparing the
>> password. I was not really aware that the LDAP server offers
>> authentication as a service. I also had to set some permissions in
>> my LDAP server to make this work.
>
> That would of course be possible, but it would require clear-text
> passwords in the directory, something that many don't like ;-)


Not necessarily - you can use crypteq to compare crypted passwords, etc.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_11.html#IX875

Peter