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Get and use secure supported LDAP SASL authentication mechanisms

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You don’t have to use insecure clear text Simple BIND authentication for accessing your LDAP servers.

Get list of supported authentication mechanisms:

ldapsearch -h example.com -x -b "" -s base -LLL supportedSASLMechanisms

Kerberos GSSAPI Example:

kinit
ldapsearch -v -Y GSSAPI -h example.com -b "DC=example,DC=com" "(sAMAccountName=someusername)"

DIGEST-MD5 Example:

ldapsearch -v -Y DIGEST-MD5 -h example.com -U someusername -R example.com -b "DC=example,DC=com"\
 "(sAMAccountName=someusername)"
Note: For Active Directory Digest Authentication to work, you may need to enable Reversible encryption on the account’s password and change the user’s password once.