Re: [Fwd] Net::LDAP api talking to Netscape Directory server

[Feisal M. <fe...@uw...>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
Ron Hall <th...@cc...> wrote:

> > > 
> > Did you actually encode it with SHA-1 before putting it into the 
> > slapd.conf file?
> 
> 	The configuration tool provided by Netscape was happy to do it for
> 	me.....
Question.  For a bind, isn't the password sent in plaintext?  That's how
IBM and OpenLDAP servers work.  The server does the encoding and compares it
with the stored password.  If so then the password should not be encoded.

-Feisal