freeradius with multiple ldap servers

Ivan Kalik tnt at kalik.net
Mon Jul 7 11:08:55 CEST 2008


> Does that mean that I cannot authenticate against a LDAP server from a
>freeradius server using cleartext passwords. 

But you are not using cleartext passwords. Passwords in ldap are
encrypted.

>So the freeradius client
>needs to send the password in encrypted format. But other programs which
>using LDAP server to authenticate (eg. the pam_ldap ) takes as input the
>cleartext password. Is there a solution to this ?

You need to add a header to the userPassword field. If you don't know
what password header is and how to do that, ask on the ldap list.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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