[Engine-devel] LDAP: Add support for simple authentication over SSL

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: snmishra at us.ibm.com, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:21:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] LDAP: Add support for simple authentication over SSL
> 
> 
> Quoting Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com>:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> >> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> >> Cc: snmishra at us.ibm.com
> >> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:09:17 PM
> >> Subject: [Engine-devel] LDAP: Add support for simple
> >> authentication over SSL
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>     IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) supports simple
> >>     authentication
> >> over SSL. What will it take to add this support? I can help with
> >> this
> >> work item but will need some guidance.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Sharad Mishra
> >>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > There was a discussion recently regarding this.
> >
> > I paste what I wrote then...
> 
> Alon,
> 
>      Thanks for the prompt reply. Does it mean that we will now be
> passing LDAP protocol as an argument. Here is the patch that does it
> (not a working patch) -
> 

No... it is more than than, please see the attachment I sent.
We need to copy with all combinations of transport and authentication.
We should also add the selected transport and authentication to the manage-domains utility and database.
It is not something we can solve in few lines of code if we want to do that properly.

Regards,
Alon