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Re: problem with cleartext password setup



I thought the field was only base64 encoded if it had offending characters such as a space, or something not LDIF compliant?

E.G. you could see an entry that says  {crypt}AFDA12321de323


Sellers

On Feb 5, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:


--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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