LDAP-UX Client Services password transmitted "in the clear"

[Sean Smith_2]

On HP-UX 11i, I am using LDAP-UX Client Services to enable Netscape Directory Server (NDS) on a Sun machine as the name resolution service. I understand from a white paper from January 2000 that the password is transmitted in the clear over the network. Does this problem still exist with HP-UX 11i? If so, what is the recommended technology to use to encrypt the password for transmission to NDS?

Thanks,
Sean

[Jerome Fenal_1]

You should use LDAP over SSL, on both client and server.
Check with NSLDAP and LDAP-UX to see if they are able to manage SSL connections, or user stunnel (on both client and server) to get an SSL connection between them.

HTH, regards,

Jerome

[Sean Smith_2]

Jerome,

Thanks for your suggestion! I'll investigate.

Sean

[Bob Neal-Joslin]

Alkthough LDAP-UX does not support SSL, the latest version (B.02.00) does support DIGEST-MD5 authentication (works with iPlanet 5.0 and OpenLDAP with Cyrus SASL.)

Bob

[Jason Tan]

Hi Sean,

I wonder how you make your LDAP-UX work with the NDS? I'm working on the LDAP-UX to work with NDS in Sun machine, do i need to configure or do anything on the NDS in order to have LDAP-UX client to work?

[Adam_169]

I was able to get this working. What problems are you running into?