Alfresco + Kolab authentication

Del delonly at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 17:13:56 CEST 2008


Hello Antonio,

Please make time to document your solution in the wiki as you go along:
http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Main_Page
You are not the only one interested in a document management system ;)

Cheers,
Del

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:22 +0200, Antonio Straziota wrote:
> hi,
> thanks to all for the reply.
> 
> So, It could be possible using secrets stored in the LDAP?
> 
> From the link posted by Marc:
> 
> "This section describes the use of the SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism using
> secrets stored either in the directory itself or in Cyrus SASL's own
> database. DIGEST-MD5 relies on the client and the server sharing a
> "secret", usually a password"
> 
> Is it correct?
> 
> I'll try it. Thanks for the help...
> 
> PS: Any other suggetion are welcome :D
> 
> bye
> 
> 2008/10/9 Marc Patermann <hans.moser at ofd-sth.niedersachsen.de>
>         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
>         
>         
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