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Good
day,
Because passwords can hold characters that are not normally stored in
LDAP, they are Base64 encoded.
Note
that this is only to hold the password data; the Base64 data can be easily
decoded into plaintext. It goes without saying that you should use
encypted passwords. =)
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Darren Gamble
Planner,
Regional Services
Shaw Cablesystems GP
630 - 3rd Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2P
4L4
(403) 781-4948
Hello list,
I'm using openLDAP 2.0.11 without sasl support or
SSL. I add users with plain text passwords, the value in the ldif
file is plain text and I'm not using any encryption method as far as I can
tell. But when I check the values in the data
base after a record has been added I see the password having some other
nonsensical value as if it's been encrypted. Does anyone have any
idea what's happening? I don't mind it and rather prefer it this way but
I'm curios. I've seen the same thing whether I use openLDAP client
commands or a Java program.
This is the command I'm using for adding
through openldap.
ldapmodify -a -d 1 -x -D
"cn=Directory Manager, dc=myDC, dc=com" -w secret -f
d:\openLDAP\ldifs\addUser.ldif
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