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Re: plain text passwords



At 01:41 PM 3/16/01 -0800, craigl wrote:
>This gets accepted fine with ldap, but when I do a ldapsearch, the
>password ends up being encrypted like so:
>
>userPasword:: aGVoZWhl

It's not encrypted.

>Another thing I see is there are 2 colons (::)

That indicates the value is base-64 encoded.

See archives as to why our ldapsearch(1) client
base64 encoded userPassword values.

Kurt