fedora and openldap

[Judith Flo Gaya <jflo@imppc.org>]

Hello,

After some time dealing with ldap and fedora, I'm stuck with an strange 
behaviour.
I can successfully change the password for a certain user using the 
ldappasswd command, after this change (either done by the manager of the 
ldap or the same user) I can successfully ssh to the machine using this 
password.
In this moment if I do slapcat I can see a password with this form:

e01ENX1pMjcvdjYyeEFvNmI4R212YUdQeDZ3PT0=

Instead if I change the password using the password command, I can see 
passwords much longer than the above one, this is what I can see after 
changing the passwd.
e2NyeXB0fSQxJER1VDNiMEtQJE1GNmQ5UGo4YXhSQXp0RW9VNDVUNDA=

I configured the client to use ldap with this command:
authconfig --enableforcelegacy --disablecachecreds --enableldap 
--enableldapauth --ldapserver=172.19.5.13 
--ldapbasedn=dc=linux,dc=imppc,dc=org --disableldaptls 
--disablefingerprint --disablewinbind --disablewins --disablesssd 
--disablesssdauth --disablenis --enablecache --enablelocauthorize 
--usemd5 --updateall

This command takes care of all the pam.d files, and considering that the 
ssh does work with the password set by the ldappasswd command, where is 
the problem?

The server is an openldap-2.4.25.

Am I missing something? I though that it was perfectly possible to use 
passwd instead of ldappasswd.
Any help will be extremely appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
j