Re: userPassword issues

[Bbaale Fred <bbaale@gmail.com>]

> On 04/01/13 22:55 +0300, Bbaale Fred wrote:
>> The attribute is different after running ldappasswd on it even thought I am pretty sure that its the same password.
>> 
>> I still have the ldiff file. If I decoded the userPasswords in the ldiff file and did a slapadd again, would it work?
> 
> What format are the passwords in, in your original slapcat'd file (after
> uudecoding)? Do they contain a prefix ({crypt})?

They  do not have ({crypt}) . Slapcat produced base64 userPassword values, which i slapadd'ed . 

> 
>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/01/13 22:28 +0300, Bbaale Fred wrote:
>>>> My users can not login after a successful database migration from ldbm to bdb.
>>>> 
>>>> I did slapcat and slapadd my ldiff file sucessfully, but the userPassword attribute seems to have been modified.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Now for a user to login, i have to first change their password, or at least appear to do that.
>>>> After doing a ldappasswd, even with the old password, the user can login.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Your help is needed , as I do not want to change passwords for 2000 users.
>>>> 
>>>> Fred Bbaale
>>> 
>>> What difference, if any, do you see in a user's entry (using ldapsearch)
>>> before and after running ldappasswd on it?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dan White
> 
> -- 
> Dan White