Authentication using encryption

[Janni Fikouras <feanor@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE>]

  Hi, I am currently developing an adress database based on openldap and the
Netscape Java ldap SDK version 4. Everything has been going smoothly all in
all other than a recent problem that I have encountered concerning
password management.

  Authentication in cleartext as wel las i.e. {crypt} works fine, changing 
the "userpassword" attribute in order to assign a cleartext value is also
no problem. My question is how do I tell the directory that I want the
cleartext value I give it converted into lets say {crypt} ? Or do I have
to do stuff like that in the application ?

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