Re: same SASL config that works on CentOS5 & 6 fails on CentOS7

Paul Raines <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:24:25 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.cyrus.sasl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 4:12pm, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

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> --On Friday, September 28, 2018 4:58 PM -0400 Paul Raines 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Running 'host ldap.foobar.org' on the C6 and C7 machine both return the
>> exact same four lines/IPs.  Reverse DNS of the 4 IPs using the host
>> command is also the same on both C6 and C7 machines.  It really looks
>> like OpenLDAP is
>> just not doing the reverse DNS on C7 when building the MD5 digest
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Again, as I stated, there have been no changes to OpenLDAP in this area. 
> Additionally, OpenLDAP leverages cyrus-sasl for SASL mechanism negotiations. 
> The culprit most likely would be a change in the version of cyrus-sasl being 
> used between C5/C6 and C7.
>
> c7 has: 2.1.26-23.el7
> c6 has: 2.1.23-15.el6_6.2
>

Okay, that makes sense.  Though the change may go even deeper such as
newer openssl or other crypto library maybe.

Thanks