On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:59:21 +0100
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> Subject: Using JNDIRealm with password digesting and openldap
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use tomcat's JNDIRealm with OpenLDAP. I've converted my
> passwords to digest format in the LDAP directory instead of plain text.
>
> Apparently, tomcat only excepts only hex formatted password where openLDAP
> provides passwords of the format
> {crypt}XXXXX where crypt = { SHA, MD, ... } and XXX is a base64 encoded
> integer.
>
> Is there a way to configure tomcat to accept this format of passwords? If
> so does this require any recompilation of
> tomcat?
>
Supporting passwords in this format (with the leading {foo} prefix) is
high on my TODO list of enhancements for JNDIRealm -- along with other
improvements -- but it hasn't been done yet.
> Thanks for your help,
>
> -- Dirk
>
Craig
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