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Clear-Password Authentication

Clear-password authentication (sometimes called simple authentication) allows users to connect or bind to a directory by providing a username and password.

The following conditions are required for clear-password authentication to work:

• The name corresponds to a real entry in the directory.
• That entry has a password attribute.
• The user supplies a username and password.
• The minimum authentication of all the DSAs must not include the value ssl-auth.

Authentication fails and the bind is refused in the following cases:

• The entry named by the user cannot be found.
• The entry named by the user name does not contain a password attribute.
• The password provided does not match the password value of the attribute in the entry named by the user name.