Matthew Crocker wrote:
> 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
First, hashing is not encryption.
> 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
Second, this isn't how everybody's qmail-ldap is configured.
