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Re: changing userPassword from custom application

Howard Chu wrote:
> Zdenek Styblik wrote:
>> Anyway. As the subject suggests, my question is how to code application
>> which allows user to change his password. Or better to ask, if there is
>> some [to me] unknown LDAP function which figures out what password
>> encryption [hash] is used and generates new hash of password, if
>> application should have idea at all what kind of password encryption is
>> used.
>> I think this is just impossible. Login is one thing, changing password
>> is another.
> 
> That's what ldappasswd is for. And no, the application should never have
> any idea what encryption a server uses. That's purely a server-internal
> issue.

Oh, well...

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=6250

SCNR. ;-}

Ciao, Michael.