[one-users] Authentication ldap and authdb issues

[Javier Fontan]

The addons were recently updated to be 2.2 compatible. Anyway, I think
they were already compatible with 2.2 release.

As Gian Umberto says you should protect the password files with file
system permissions. Anyway, we are looking into more secure auth
methods for ldap.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Steffen Neumann <sneumann at ipb-halle.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 22:54 +0530, Madhurranjan Mohaan wrote:
>> I am trying to use the ldap add on to integrate the setup with ldap
>
> I have some followup questions:
>
> 1) The documentation suggests that LDAP integration was created
>   for the 2.0 release: documentation:archives:rel2.0:ldap
>   I assume it still (is supposed to) work with 2.2 ?
>
> 2) The user should add its credentials to $ONE_AUTH file
>   (usually $HOME/.one/one_auth) in this fashion:
>
>        user_dn:plain:user_password
>
>   Does that mean the users have to put their passwds
>   in plain text into their homedir ?? This would be
>   a gaping security hole.
>
> Yours,
> Steffen
>
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