Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Synchronization with mobile appliances via SyncML - need help ASAP

[Christian Rost]

> > Dave mentioned a hack for SQL.  Do you/ or Dave know some details about the
> > hack? I need to know wether it can be done with reasonable effort. and what
> > needs to be done.
>
> It is standard in all installs.  It allows a password to be validated
> against the md5 hash.  So you can query ther db for the password and
> then throw it back at the auth layer.  LDAP doesn't support something
> like this, so it isn't possible :(
>
Why isn't it possible? Isn't it the same wether you store the md5 hash in LDAP
or a database? Well, until now we don't encrypt the LDAP based password,
because some applications need plain text password.  We protect the passwords
through LDAP based ACLs.

Cheers,

Christian

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