Re: ldappasswd -T

[David Dumortier <d.dumortier@free.fr>]

Hello,

Le mer. sept. 21 2011 ï 06:11:00 +0200, Pierangelo Masarati dit :
> On 09/21/2011 05:48 PM, David Dumortier wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I tried to set a password with the -T option.
> >It failed so I tried -d 11 to see the dump in hexa.
> >I discovered that a 0xa is append to the password.
> >Is it a bug ? if so please confirm I will open a bugreport.
> 
> slappasswd hashes the contents of the file, whatever it is.
> Usually, one should generate a file that contains a single line
> without a newline (0xa) at the end.  For example:
> 
> $ echo "secret" > x && slappasswd -T x -h '{CLEARTEXT}' | od -c
> Warning: Password file x is publicly readable/writeable
> 0000000   s   e   c   r   e   t  \n  \n
> 0000010
> $ echo -n "secret" > x && slappasswd -T x -h '{CLEARTEXT}' | od -c
> Warning: Password file x is publicly readable/writeable
> 0000000   s   e   c   r   e   t  \n
> 0000007
> 
> notice the extra '\n' you get when the file is terminated by a newline.
> 
> p.
> 

Sorry, I forgot to say I verified there's no newline on the file (with
vi but I didn't try with od, I'll do it this morning).
And as I said I use ldappasswd as it is for users' password, perhaps
have I to use slappassword?

Anyway thx for reply.
-- 
David Dumortier