Question about openldap admin's guide

[Lara Adianto <m1r4cle_26@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

In the OpenLDAP 2.2 Admin Guide, it is stated as
follows:
"To use secrets stored in the LDAP directory, place
plaintext passwords in the userPassword attribute"

Just wondering...
can we use encrypted password, like:
userPassword        {SHA}wektalskgjlaksfgjlf  ??

I've tried to use encrypted password in my directory,
but ldapsearch (I'm using Digest-MD5) will fail with
the following error although I have changed the
password-hash from cleartext to sha:
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Invalid credentials (49)
        additional info: SASL(-13): authentication
failure: client response doesn't match what we
generated

If we can only use plaintext password, then what's the
purpose of password-hash in the slapd.conf ?

Thanks to anybody who can explain the concept to me...

Newbie,
Lara 

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