Ben,

I would like to use GSSAPI for my replication. Would you be willing to
share how you went about it?

Thanks,
Brendan

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 1:05 PM Ben Poliakoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> You definitely won't be able to use a password hash as a credential for
> syncrepl. A hash is a one way function so you can't readily drive the
> password from it (except via exhaustive brute force).
>
> To avoid storing a clear text password in your config, you'll need to use
> another mechanism such as GSSAPI. That's what I use in my installations.
> x509 certificates/keys might be another option.
>
> All of the options are more complicated that using a plain text password,
> but they're also bit more secure.
>
> Ben
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 9:43 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> How to configure olcSyncrepl without a plaintext password? I tried using
>> credentials="{SSHA256}jRlrKRCcrhYo7SqbPDc5WkoSxaHc8y/e0DPWaAnveUkQpQ7wEOWhsw=="
>> format. Does olcSyncrepl accepts password in {SSHA256} format?
>>
>

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