[Koha] LDAP and password storage

Scott Owen sowen at edzone.net
Wed Oct 5 03:34:14 NZDT 2011


Tom,

As I understand it:
The Koha LDAP authentication mechanism copies user information from the LDAP tree to the local SQL database on the Koha server in order to create "user" accounts.
I believe one of the minimum requirements to create a Koha "user" account is a password.
Because of Koha's requirements for creating users, I don't think you will be able to populate the necessary fields to allow for users logins, without populating a password field.
Last time I dealt with them, passwords were hashed with MD5, and no clear text password were saved on the Koha system.

-Scott




>>> Tom Hanstra<tom at nd.edu> 10/4/2011 9:56 AM >>>
We now have LDAP working to authenticate on logins.  But we have also 
noticed that Koha stores that same password locally.  Is there a 
configurable switch that I have not yet found which will keep LDAP 
connected logins from local storage?

Thanks,
Tom

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