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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="LDAP Account Manager - Manual"><link rel="up" href="apb.html" title="Appendix�B.�Security"><link rel="prev" href="apbs04.html" title="Chrooted servers"><link rel="next" href="apbs06.html" title="Apache configuration"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="apbs04.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix�B.�Security</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="apbs06.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" title="Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="idp6544800"></a>Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</h2></div></div></div><p>You have to install the MCrypt extension for PHP to enable
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="LDAP Account Manager - Manual"><link rel="up" href="apb.html" title="Appendix�B.�Security"><link rel="prev" href="apbs04.html" title="Chrooted servers"><link rel="next" href="apbs06.html" title="Apache configuration"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="apbs04.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix�B.�Security</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="apbs06.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" title="Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="idp6556688"></a>Protection of your LDAP password and directory contents</h2></div></div></div><p>You have to install the MCrypt extension for PHP to enable
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encryption.</p><p>Your LDAP password is stored encrypted in the session file. The
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key and IV to decrypt it are stored in two cookies. We use MCrypt/AES to
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encrypt the password. All data that was read from LDAP and needs to be