topic Re: Apache DS LDAP and CIFS in Alfresco Archive

Apache DS LDAP and CIFS

mccarthymp — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:43:41 GMT

I am trying to configure Alfrescom Labs 3 with Apache DS LDAP server and I get an error related to CIFS on server startup (below). I found a mention of LDAP and CIFS in the wiki herehttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Enterprise_Security_and_Authentication_Configuration#Recommended_combinations which see

Re: Apache DS LDAP and CIFS

tvaughan77 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:14:22 GMT

LDAP authentication and CIFS are interoperable, unfortunately you need to use MD4 password encoding, which a lot of LDAP implementations don't support out-of-the-box.

Re: Apache DS LDAP and CIFS

mccarthymp — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:29:06 GMT

So if I could encode the passwords with MD4 (or plaintext?), it is possible to use CIFS and LDAP authentication. Would I then need to configure the CIFS file server using PASSTHRU authentication? Do you have any resources for configuring CIFS with PASSTHRU?

Re: Apache DS LDAP and CIFS

tvaughan77 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:23:47 GMT

Do you have any resources for configuring CIFS with PASSTHRUf

I'm afraid I don't. . .this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge of LDAP's impact on CIFS. . . having just been through 3 or 4 days of Alfresco/OpenLDAP/etc configuration, the one thing I keep reading/seeing is that if you're going to encrypt passwords, CIFS demands MD4.