freeradius with multiple ldap servers

Sambuddho Chakravarty sc2516 at columbia.edu
Mon Jul 7 21:37:48 CEST 2008


Hello Ivan and Alan
 Thanks a lot for tolerating my pestering. It has worked. The problem
was with the PAP module. The auto header detection was turned off. It
works perfectly now.

Thanks
Sambuddho
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 10:08 +0100, Ivan Kalik wrote:
> > 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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