Re: About the "userPassword" crypt in OpenLDAP.

[Andreas <andreas@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:29:57PM +0800, Wang Penghui wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I wonder that how the OpenLDAP encrypt the "userPassword" field.
> Export from the database to a LDIF file. The userPassword is displayed 
> by base64 encoded. But what's the style is it stored in OpenLDAP?
> Which encrypt mothed does it used?

Whatever the ldap client sent to the ldap server. OpenLDAP won't mangle
it.

Now, if you use the extended password change operation, then slapd will
use whatever hash is configured with the password-hash directive in
slapd.conf(5).