Re: userPassword in PHP

["Kervin L. Pierre" <kervin@blueprint-tech.com>]

try...

$entry['userpassword'] ="{md5}".base64_encode(pack("H*",md5($newpass)));

I always seem to have trouble with this myself.

--kervin


Marlon Dutra wrote:
> Hello peoples,
>
> I'm trying to create a user in LDAP using ldap_add() of PHP 4, but I'm having 
> a problem. I don't know how to store the userPassword using a MD5 hash.
>
> I tried by some ways:
>
> $ldapdata['userPassword'] = md5($password);
> $ldapdata['userPassword'] = '{MD5}' . md5($password);
> $ldapdata['userPassword'] = "{MD5}$password";
>
> Nothing worked.
>
> On the first two ways, the password goes encrypted to base, but when I try to 
> authenticate, the password does not check.
>
> Using ldap_add from shell, I always get success.
>
> Any helps are welcome.
>
> Merry christmas.


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