is that common to use kerberos authentication for SUN iplanet LDAP server?

[Wachdorf, Daniel R]

You can use Sun's Directory server with non Sun kdc, you just have to
have SEAM (Sun's Kerberos) setup on the director server (ie - it needs
the client libs).  If you have an install on Solaris 9 or 10 I don't
even then you need to install anything - the Kerberos libs are already
there.  (You will have to run the directory server on a Solaris box).
See http://docs.sun.com/source/817-7613/ssl.html

-dan

-----Original Message-----
From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On
Behalf Of Kent Wu
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:29 PM
To: kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: is that common to use kerberos authentication for SUN iplanet
LDAP server?

Hi guys,

Does anyone have experience on this to share? 
I've set up a SUN LDAP server and it's running fine by 
using simple authentication so far. Of course I want to
make it more secure (to protect the password while binding 
to LDAP server) so I'm thinking either MD5-Digest or Kerberos.
However looks like SUN LDAP itself doesn't have kerberos 
abilities and I have to install SEAM (Sun Enterprise Authentication
Mechanism) separately to enable Kerberos..... 

   So I was thinking that if I can easily configure SUN LDAP to 
use MD5-digest then that should be the easiest however it seems 
that I have to store the password as plain-text in LDAP
server to enable MD5-digest and I don't want to do that (Let 
me know if there are other easier ways to enable MD5-digest). 

   So my question is that is it pretty easy to enable Kerberos 
for SUN LDAP after installing SEAM? Or can SUN LDAP use other 
KDC as well? 	 

Thanks a lot in advance !

P.S, I know LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) can easily achieve my goal 
however I kinda think it's an overkill since I don't really 
need to protect all the LDAP transactions except for the 
password part...

-Kent
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