Alfresco + Kolab authentication

Antonio Straziota devgioiatech at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 12:12:06 CEST 2008


hi,
i'm sorry, but i can't write a document about this because i'm only  kolab
admin...
A developer is responsible of the integration with alfresco and he ask me if
is possibile to autenticate kolab user through MD5 encryption.

sorry...:(

2008/10/9 Del <delonly at gmail.com>

> 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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