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[Peter Polkinghorne <address@concealed>]

I believe that this is because Sympa uses an Auth operation against LDAP, so 
it is (in my limited understanding), up to the LDAP directory server to pick 
the correct password to check on the authentication operation. My LDAP conf 
in auth.conf file makes no mention of password fields. I have to say this 
caused my some confusion when setting up, but is the way LDAP works.

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Peter Polkinghorne
Computer Officer (Systems)
Computer Centre
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-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On 
Behalf Of address@concealed
Sent: 09 January 2011 15:30
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] Can't get Sympa to authenticate from LDAP

Hello,

According to the documentation Sympa supports "authentication using LDAP =
directory instead of sympa internal storage of password", however the =
passwords in my LDAP database are stored in the "userPassword" field and =
this field name is not referenced anywhere in the Sympa source code, nor =
is it configurable.  So how can Sympa check my users' passwords against =
the LDAP database?

Thanks.