Re: changing userPassword from custom application

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

--On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:23 AM +0100 Zdenek Styblik 
<stybla@turnovfree.net> wrote:
> As I've explained later, I didn't figure it out/found out how to use
> such feature nor I'm aware such feature exists.
> I'll be more than happy to use it.
> Or I don't know if I did something wrong. Could you please provide some
> example in case it's different from:
>
> --- SNIP ---
> changetype: modify
> userPassword: mySecretPasswd
> --- SNIP ---
>
> where 'mySecretPasswd' is in clear text and LDAP is supposed to know
> what to do exactly with userPassword. In another words, get default
> password encryption, generate hash, store password.
>
> At least I think I did it like this. I don't recall correctly, as it was
> wrong way do change password and since then I'm using % slappasswd; to
> get hash when in command-line or function in application[s].

Well, I'd suggest you start by looking at the code for ldappaswd, which is 
freely distributed with the OpenLDAP source.  In addition, you can read 
about the RFC at:

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3062>

And here's an example using perl:

<http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap/lib/Net/LDAP/FAQ.pod#Ho_do_I_reset_a_user%27s_password_...>

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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