Re: migrating MD5 shadowed passwords

[Villy Kruse <vek@pharmapartners.nl>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:20:03 -0800
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
> To: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr . <bench@surfshop.net.ph>
> Cc: OpenLDAP Software Mailing List <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Subject: Re: migrating MD5 shadowed passwords
> 
> At 09:11 PM 2/21/00 +0800, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr . wrote:
> >How do I migrate 'shadow' passwords in MD5 format to a format which
> >OpenLDAP can recognize?
> 
> You likely can just take the password field from the shadow
> passwd, prefix {crypt} to it, and store it in userPassword.
> This works if crypt(3) understands the shadow file format.
> 
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Also for MD5 passwords?????  Some linux versions such as RedHat has
than as an alternative to the standard unix crypt passwords.


This is a new type of passwords based on the MD5 hash of the password.


Ldap does support {md5} passwords in addition to {crypt} but if it uses
the exact same algorith as the new passord with MD5 I can't say.




Villy