Re: rootpw can't be encrypted

["Dannie M. Stanley" <dan@spinweb.net>]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

I did a little dance here in the office.  Yes someone please update the
documentation, it could have saved me about 6 hours of pouring over
websites and man pages.


have a good day,
DS

-- 
Dannie M Stanley
SpinWeb Net Designs, Inc.
http://www.spinweb.net


"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> At 11:06 PM 7/13/00 -0500, Dannie M Stanley wrote:
> >I am running openldap-1.2.11 on RedHat 6.  I have been banging my head
> >against the wall trying to use an encrypted password in the slapd.conf
> >file.  A plain text password works fine but when i try to use encryption
> >it doesn't work, ugh!
> >
> >For example I have run a simple Perl script for generaing and SHA
> >password, I use 'secret' here as an example.
> >
> >      use Digest::SHA1;
> >      $ctx = Digest::SHA1->new;
> >      $ctx->add('secret');
> >      print '{SHA}' . $ctx->b64digest . "\n";
> >
> >Which generates:
> >
> >      {SHA}5en6G6MezRroT3XKqkdPOmY/BfQ
> 
> Try:  {SHA}5en6G6MezRroT3XKqkdPOmY/BfQ=
> 
> b64digest strips the padding.  Someone who knows perl
> is welcomed to update the examples in the FAQ.
> 
> Kurt