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

[snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]

Quoting Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com>:

> ----- 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.
>

I never meant to indicate that the patch I attached is all I need. It  
will be lot more than what is in the patch. The idea behind the patch  
was to check if we need to pass ldap protocol as an argument like we  
do userid and password right now.

-Sharad
> Regards,
> Alon