Re: how to enable crypt password in Openldap under Windows!!!

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder@gmail.com>]

On 10/31/07, Piotr Wadas <pwadas@jewish.org.pl> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
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> > --On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:05 PM -0500 Hang Zhang <hzhang@cs.uno.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > C:\OpenLDAP>slappasswd -h {CRYPT}
> > > New password: Re-enter new password: Password generation failed for
> > > scheme {CRYPT}: scheme not recognized
> >
> >
> > Using crypt is bad.
> >
> > --Quanah
> >
>
> Can you explain why it is bad? We use it mainly because we're
> moving our users and passwords from shadow files, is something
> wrong with {CRYPT} passwords ? Is it deprecated, or something?
> Regards,
> Piotr
>

See:
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/419.html
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/344.html
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/348.html