[asterisk-users] LDAP integration

Gavin Henry gavin.henry at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 15:13:35 CDT 2009


Which version of the LDAP schema? I look after the one in 1.6.

Thanks.

On 29/09/2009, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:01 -0300, Rafael Seste wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I looked on the Internet but I didn't find any good how-to.
>> I would like to integrate a ldap server ( with all users data) with
>> asterisk to authenticate SIP users. With this solution I will only
>> need to add a user on ldap, it will not be necessary to add any
>> special configuration on sip.conf
>>
>> Is that possible???If so, How can I configure this setup???
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> I considered doing this using LDAP as a real-time database.  I decided
> not to for two reasons which I'll share below. However, I am very new to
> Asterisk so I would be very curious to know from more experienced folks
> if my assumptions were false.
>
> First, there were some good how-tos about using LDAP as a real-time
> database but, if I recall, the schema is extended in such a way that the
> regular user password is not the password used by Asterisk.
>
> Second, I believe we saw a way we could map the Asterisk password to the
> regular user password (it's been a while so I'm not sure about that) but
> were concerned about the problems of entering secure passwords from a
> phone keypad.  We enforce fairly secure passwords - at least nine
> characters with some variety of characters and encourage much longer
> passwords.  Having to enter lots of characters in both cases as well as
> symbols seemed difficult from a phone keypad.  Thus, we decided
> (reluctantly) to use separate simple passwords for phone access instead
> of the very secure passwords we use to data access.
>
> Hope this helps and looking forward to more informed comments than mine!
> - John
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