Re: LDAP + password problem

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Depending upon the configuration of your ldap server (slapd), parts of the 
database will be world-readable, whereas other sensible parts like 
passwords are visible only after binding with a specific dn, including a 
valid password. E-mail, real name and address infos are usually 
world-readable, so I guess you should not need a password.

You should, however, set up your ldap system to use ssl which encrypts all 
data traffic between server and client, and you could additionally use 
kerberos tickets to do a machine authentication. This is set up in the 
config files of the server and the "generic" or user-specific config files 
for all client apps (e.g. /etc/openldap/ldap.conf). There is a really good 
OpenLDAP howto which you can find on the web for further infos.

Hope this helps,
with greetings from Old Europe,

Albrecht.


Am 25.01.03 21:21 schrieb(en):
>  Does anybody know how to specify a password for accessing LDAP server?
> 
>  I've uploaded balsa-2.0.5, compiled it with ldap support and run. I 
> tried to add an LDAP addressbook and found that there is no 'password' 
> field in LDAP dialog. So, I can use LDAP only if it is absolutely 
> public. But I'd like to use a password authorization. Perhaps there is 
> some way to specify a password I don't know about?
> 
> With best regards,
>  Rtveliashvili Denis
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