[Bug 6629] userPassword Support not available, because it is not build with libssl-dev

[Benjamin Montgomery]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6629

Comment:
Subject: Re: SASL and OpenSSL with gq
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:53:47 +0100
From: Guido Trotter <ultrotter at quaqua.net>
To: Benjamin Montgomery <bmontgom at montynet.org>
References: <43D1C02B.2010707 at montynet.org>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:01:31PM -0600, Benjamin Montgomery wrote:

Hi,

> Guido,
> I'm working on a bug that was reported in the Ubuntu bug tracker[1]
> regarding encryption of userPassword entries.  I have also been using a
> local package of gq that is built with libsasl2.  I have been using my
> package of gq to do GSSAPI binds with my ldap server.  It also appears
> that the userPassword encryption works correctly.  I looked through the
> BTS and noticed that you have disabled these features on purpose, but
> I'm not clear on the reason why.  Are there problems with these features?
> 

Yeah, upstream (when he was still active) esplicitely said they were
completely
broken and unsupported... So I preferred to disable them!

> A related issue is that of linking against OpenSSL.  It seems the
> authors of gq have allowed an exception to the GPL to get around the
> OpenSSL license issues described here [2].  I think if the features that
> OpenSSL enables work correctly, the OpenSSL attribution statement needs
> to be added to the copyright file.
> 

That can surely be done! No problem!

Ciao,

Guido


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