[ldap-nis] LDAP authentication methods (fwd)

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

This might be of interest.

Mark

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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:51:01 -0700
From: Morteza Ansari <mo...@en...>
To: lda...@pa...
Subject: [ldap-nis] LDAP authentication methods

Well it took a while, but it is finally here!  After years of living
with simple bind and clear text password, now we have standard based
stronger security options for LDAP.  Today 3 new RFC came out of IETF
(after years of discussions/arguments/yelling/...):

RFC 2829 Authentication Methods for LDAP
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2829.txt)
RFC 2830 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for
Transport Layer Security (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2830.txt)
RFC 2831 Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2831.txt)

This is very good news and hopefully directory vendors as well as
directory enabled applications will start using these new
options/extensions soon.



Cheers,
Morteza