Re: problem with cleartext password setup

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On February 5, 2008 1:14:35 PM -0600 Pat Riehecky <prieheck@iwu.edu> 
wrote:

> Strangely they are not prefixed with the {HASHTYPE}.
>
> When I run
> ldappasswd -H ldapi:/// -D "cn=testuser,dc=iwu,dc=edu" -w Please -x -s
> please
>
> In LDAP I get
>
> userPassword:: cGxlYXNl
>
> What did I do?

You failed to understand the difference between hashes and encoding. 
userPassword is base-64 encoded.  Decode it to see what the actual value is.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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