LDAP authentication

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 01/17/2011 11:04 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:51 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> One change from older versions of Fedora is that, with SSSD, you
>> cannot use authentication against LDAP without encryption. This is
>> because the simple bind password would otherwise be sent in the clear
>> over the wire. Older versions of Fedora allowed using unencrypted
>> auth, but no longer (for your protection).
> 
> Just of curiosity:  Does that actually stop the client sending a
> password out in the clear?
> 

Yes, if you're authenticating through SSSD, then before we attempt to
perfom an LDAP bind, we check to see if the channel is encrypted (either
through LDAPS, LDAP+TLS or LDAP+GSSAPI). If it is not, we will not
perform the bind and simply return authentication failure internally.

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