Auteur: Peter Bowyer Date: À: exim-users Sujet: 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.
