How about bind-style authentication to the directory? Is that on the todo
list? If you implement that, you no longer need to worry about supporting
all the varying password formats.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "jay n gaba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: Using JNDIRealm with password digesting and Netscape Directory
Structure
>
> Hi
> Has anyone solved the following problem regarding the digest password
>
> please give me some hint;
>
> thanks
>
> regards
> jay
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>
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