"A. Burak Gurdag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can manage to do digest authentication (according to
> sterman-draft-00) over FreeRadius against an LDAP server in which user
> passwords are stored in cleartext. I would like to store passwords in
> SSHA or MD5 encoded form in the LDAP server. But it does not seem
> possible since FreeRadius has no way to know the password to calculate
> the digest to authenticate. Am I wrong?

  You're right.  It's impossible.

> Do I have to delegate the digest calculation and verification to the
> LDAP server to achieve this (in this case I have to put my focus on
> the LDAP server that I use)?

  You can't.  The LDAP server has no more information that FreeRADIUS
has, and therefore can't do anything different.

  And there are *no* LDAP servers that can do digest authentication.
That I can guarantee.

> Is there another way that you can suggest?

  Store clear-text passwords in LDAP.

  Alan DeKok.


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