Only CRYPT works for my servers. How do I make other encryption types
work with qmail? 

I'm running RH8.0 boxes.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Crocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:26 AM
To: Matt
Cc: QMAIL LDAP MAILING LIST
Subject: Re: Qmail-ldap where do I specify encryption?

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:46, Matt wrote:
> Where do I specify the type of encryption I want to use on the
passwords
> for users?    I can't recall where you set that.

Envryption of the userPassword attribute is done by the LDAP server. 
The attribute is stored as {ENC_TYPE}HASH where ENC_TYPE is the valid
encryption types supported by the LDAP server (CRYPT,MD5,SHA1 ...) and
HASH is the encrypted password.  QMAIL-LDAP simply attempts to bind to
the LDAP server as the DN using the user supplied password. If it works
the password is correct.   QMAIL-LDAP doesn't need to know how the
password was encrypted.  This also allows you to have different
encryption settings for users so you can migrate to a new scheme

-Matt

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Matthew Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crocker Communications, Inc.


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