Alfresco + Kolab authentication

[Marc Patermann]

Gunnar Wrobel schrieb:
> Quoting Antonio Straziota <devgioiatech at gmail.com>:

>> Now i've to configure Alfresco with LDAP. With SIMPLE autentication
>> mode i've no problem, but i want to configure the authentication
>> metod in DIGEST$B!](BMD5.
>>
>> Can i configure Kolab LDAP to accept connection in SASL DIGEST-MD5?
Yes.

> I admit I'm not 100% certain how your setup looks like. Of course  
> Alfresco can authenticate using SASL to authenticate against the Kolab  
> LDAP server. But your request sounds like you wish LDAP to use SASL  
> (something like http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/sasl.html) which is  
> not possible as OpenLDAP is the SASL backend and that would result in  
> a circular dependency.
Not true!
"The DIGEST-MD5 mechanism is the mandatory-to-implement authentication 
mechanism for LDAPv3."

Have a look at the OpenLDAP Admin Guide SASL section: -> 
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/sasl.html


Marc