Re: Newbie question: setting userPassword field

[John Kristian <kristian@netscape.com>]

Dan wrote:

> ... I converted the password "hello" into the string ¬(¦?_+Fó++¦¤;H,+«¬CM (hmm,
> it loses something in the translation :).  Now, I assumed that I could simply
> change the rootpw from its current default plaintext password to
> {SHA}¬(¦?_+Fó++¦¤;H,+«¬CM

Wrong; you neglected to base64 encode the hash.  See
<http://developer.netscape.com/tech/overview/index.html?content=/docs/technote/ldap/pass_sha.html>.