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Re: how can you tell if md5 is in use

To: Jason Joines <joines@bus.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: how can you tell if md5 is in use
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:09:28 -0700
Cc: OpenLDAP Users <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <416AEA4E.2060003@bus.okstate.edu>
References: <416AEA4E.2060003@bus.okstate.edu>

At 01:17 PM 10/11/2004, Jason Joines wrote:
>   I'm trying to get user passwords stored in md5 format in my OpenLDAP 2.2.6 directory.  I changed by own password, then did a dump of the database via slapcat and looked at userPassword expecting to see somthing like {MD5}somestring.

Note that slapcat, as well as ldapsearch, use LDIF base64 encoding
option for values of userPassword (as indicated by the '::').
Use your favorite base64 decoder to see the actual value transferred.

Kurt

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