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Re: userPassword's



At 10:47 AM 1/26/01 -0800, malyprogservices@flashmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I remember nss_ldap only recognizing a userPassword if it starts with
>"{CRYPT}".

nss_ldap issues should be directed to nssldap@padl.com.

>Somewhere I thought I
>read/heard that the MD5 hash is different for LDAP auth and crypt(). Is
>this true?

Well, MD5 is MD5.  But how crypt(3) might use MD5 is likely
different than how RFC 2307 {MD5} makes use of MD5.  crypt(3)
produced values should be stored using the {CRYPT} scheme.

Kurt