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| | | <section xml:id="simple-auth"> |
| | | <title>Simple Authentication</title> |
| | | |
| | | <indexterm> |
| | | <primary>Authentications</primary> |
| | | <secondary>Simple</secondary> |
| | | </indexterm> |
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| | | <para>You perform simple authentication by binding with the distinguished |
| | | name of a user's directory entry and the user's password. For this reason |
| | | simple authentication over unsecure network connections should be done only |
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| | | <section xml:id="simple-auth-with-starttls-or-ssl"> |
| | | <title>Start TLS & SSL Authentication</title> |
| | | |
| | | <indexterm> |
| | | <primary>Authentications</primary> |
| | | <secondary>StartTLS, SSL</secondary> |
| | | </indexterm> |
| | | <indexterm> |
| | | <primary>Extended operations</primary> |
| | | <secondary>StartTLS</secondary> |
| | | </indexterm> |
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| | | <para>Simple authentication involves sending a user name and password to |
| | | the directory server. To avoid sending the user name and password in |
| | | the clear, you can use SSL or Start TLS.</para> |
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| | | |
| | | <section xml:id="sasl-auth"> |
| | | <title>SASL Authentication</title> |
| | | |
| | | <indexterm> |
| | | <primary>Authentications</primary> |
| | | <secondary>SASL</secondary> |
| | | </indexterm> |
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| | | <para>Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) provides a way to |
| | | use other mechanisms for authentication such as Kerberos or Digest |
| | | authentication, or even to define your own authentication mechanism. The |