RE: 2.0.4: inserting password

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

It's still there. The schema says that userPassword has binary syntax, so
the
value is displayed in base64 encoding. If you decode the string you have,
you'll
see that it is still '{crypt}testtest' after all.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Jie Gao

> Hi All,
>
> I have been trying to run a batch job to populate the database using
> perl-ldap. This includes inserting passwords, straight from a password
> file, along with other data.
>
> This is an example of what I used:
>
>             userPassword        =>      '{crypt}testtest',
>
> But the search result shows something like:
>
>     userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXRlc3R0ZXN0
>
> '{crypt}'is not there anymore. This used to work with v1.2.
>
>
>
> Jie
>
>