Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Synchronization with mobile appliances via SyncML - need help ASAP

[Dave Hall]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:04 +0000, Christian Rost wrote:
> > And also, do you use LDAP-based auth ?
> >
> Yes, we use LDAP as central information store for user related information. It
> makes the handling of user-managemment, email-routing, adressbooks, ... for
> multiple locations much easier.

LDAP is nice for that :)

> 
> Dave mentioned a hack for SQL.  Do you/ or Dave know some details about the
> hack? I need to know wether it can be done with reasonable effort. and what
> needs to be done.

It is standard in all installs.  It allows a password to be validated
against the md5 hash.  So you can query ther db for the password and
then throw it back at the auth layer.  LDAP doesn't support something
like this, so it isn't possible :(

Cheers

Dave
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Dave Hall (aka skwashd)
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phpGroupWare
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