Alfresco + Kolab authentication

[Del]

Hello again,

Why don't you try to persuade him to document his work on the wiki. That
way you guys will get help maintaining the documentation and get it
updated for free. It is a win-win situation. Much better than sticking
it under your pillow :)

Cheers,
Del

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 12:12 +0200, Antonio Straziota wrote:
> 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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