RE: password type?

[Jeff Costlow <j.costlow@f5.com>]

It is base64 encoded:

e1NTSEF9Ynl0d1dvK1NhQmUwVFFCNVAxNDVlWERXZ1JobFZwbVk=
{SSHA}bytwWo+SaBe0TQB5P145eXDWgRhlVpmY

Please see: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/347.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Schoolfield [mailto:BillSchoolfield@upr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:05 PM
To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: password type? 


Hi:

I recently installed openldap 2.07. on solaris 2.6. I've been playing
around with various things, before I actually do any bulk loading
(trying out different schemas, etc). One thing I tried was ldappasswd as
I was curious as to how the password is generated and stored. Next I did
an export as the admin and took a look at the encrypted password. My
question is what kind of password is this?  (userPassword::
e1NTSEF9Ynl0d1dvK1NhQmUwVFFCNVAxNDVlWERXZ1JobFZwbVk=)

My conf file doesn't define password-hash so I'm guessing SSHA since
that's the default but I wonder since I didn't install any of the
addition libraries (e.g. no kerberos, openssl, or sasl).

The directory will be for internal company use and won't contain any
really sensitive material so security isn't a big concern right now.
Given that, is my setup OK? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Bill