Digest File Directory Services

A digest file stores user and group information based on encrypted user name and password.

The digest file format is meant to support the use of HTTP Digest authentication but also supports Basic authentication, so it can be used for both authentication methods. For more information about these methods, see Specifying Users and Groups.

When a digest-based database is created, the dbswitch.conf file is updated as shown in the example below:

directory digest filedigest:syntax digestdigest:digestfile D:\\test22\\digest\\digestdb

To configure distributed administration, the default directory service must be an LDAP-based directory service.