Re: 2.0.4: inserting password

[Jaron Omega <jaron@nethere.net>]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

>At 09:01 AM 10/4/00 +1100, Jie Gao wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have been trying to run a batch job to populate the database using
>>perl-ldap. This includes inserting passwords, straight from a password
>>file, along with other data.
>>
>>This is an example of what I used:
>>
>>            userPassword        =>      '{crypt}testtest',
>>
>>But the search result shows something like:
>>
>>    userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXRlc3R0ZXN0
>>
>>'{crypt}'is not there anymore. This used to work with v1.2.
>
>Note the double colon.  This means the value is base64 encoded.
>
>  perl <<EOF
>  use MIME::Base64;
>  print "userPasswd=\"" . decode_base64('e2NyeXB0fXRlc3R0ZXN0') . "\"\n";
>  EOF
>  userPasswd="{crypt}testtest"

Shouldn't that be {SHA}testtest?
I haven't tried submitting a string "{crypt style}password" to
the ldap server, will that have the server use the submitted crypt
style to encrypt 'testtest' aside from the default that the server
was set too?

Or am I confused,, I see Base64 which is a process for SHA hash comparison,
and I see 'crypt', which can be done with regular crypt(2).

I'm tired bleh,,,

Jaron Omega