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Re: (ITS#7612) {CLEARTEXT} password scheme broken
I wrote:
> This does not imply that a scheme can't be used which simply
> represents the passwords as-is, nor that slapd or slap tools have
> any business stripping away such a {scheme} prefix. In particular
> not when that's the only way to represent cleartext passwords
> starting with "{letters}".
...OTOH perhaps it's too late to change {cleartext} now if
it has an established useful meaning. Could introduce a new
scheme called {plaintext} or {raw} instead for this purpose.
--
Hallvard