Re: ldappasswd doesn't have protocol selection

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 04:23 PM 2/21/01 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>At 11:14 AM 2/22/01 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>> >Is there any particular reason why ldappasswd is unable to use v2 if
>>> >everything else is quite able to? 
>>> 
>>> OpenLDAP 2.0's ldappasswd(1) makes use of a LDAPv3 extended
>>> operation to change the password [RFC3062].
>>
>>Hmm.  Bugger.  What is the suggested way of changing one's LDAP password
>>using 2.0 tools against a 1.2 server?  Or is there no way to do that?
>
>ldapmodify(1).  If you want to use RFC 2307 userPassword schemes,
>you'll have to generate the hashed values yourself.  See the FAQ
>for details.

Actually, you can use slappasswd(8) in combination with ldapmodify(1)...

Kurt