Userpassword form in LDAP auth

hello,

I saw many thread on LDAP in this list but none answered completly my
question.

I have installed LDAP auth on tru64/5.1B via SIA and OSFLDPAUTH540.

The only documentation I found about acceptable form of password
attribute was for InternetExpress. It described this form as classical
"{encryption}encrypted_string" but after some tests I realized that
the client only accepted the form "encrypted_string" (without the
encryption type specification) and with "CRYPT" encryption type.

It is disturbing since the LDAP server is also used for others hosts
which rely on classical form. Of course, I could create an other
attribute just for Tru64 but it will imply pb for password
synchronization.

Is there somewhere a complete technical documentation on LDAP auth
with OSFLDPAUTH540 ?

Is there a solution to make LDAP auth recognize the classical password
form ?


PS: in fact, it will be great, if LDAP auth would rely on LDAP server
bind and not on fetching crypted password string.


Thank in advance,
-- 
Julien