[Users] Adding Authentication mechanism to oVirt

[Thierry Kauffmann]

Hi,

Ovirt presently supports only GSSAPI and SIMPLE authentication against
an LDAP server. The latter is far to weak to be used in a production
environment. The first is only offered as an external authentication
mechanism in many LDAP servers.

I suggest adding DIGEST-MD5 support to oVirt which is a secured way of
authenticating to an LDAP server and which is a required authentication
mechanism in LDAPv3 specification. (see
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2829.txt paragraph 4.2).

This would make it possible to access every LDAP servers securely
without the need to implement the GSSAPI mechanism.

I also actively suggest to add support for the OpenLDAP Directory
server. It is a widely used LDAP server (and the one we use at our
University by the way...).

Are there developers wishing to implement such support (DIGEST-MD5 and
OpenLDAP) ?

Or please tell me what I should do to start implementing it ?

Cheers,

Thierry


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