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Re: Question on using MD5 passwords with a client sending cleartext p asswords.

To: David Mandala <David.Mandala@DevelopOnline.com>
Subject: Re: Question on using MD5 passwords with a client sending cleartext p asswords.
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:55:14 -0700
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <A04BDD2C264AD41181C000508BDCB72A87B479@usazdolexch0.develo ponline.home>

At 01:03 PM 6/26/2001, David Mandala wrote:
>Is there someway to configure OpenLDAP so that we can store passwords in MD5
>format and allow clients to pass in cleartext passwords and have Open LDAP
>first MD5 the inbound password and then do the compare?

Use ldappasswd(1) (or any other client implementing RFC 3062)
and set password-hash in slapd.conf(5) to the desired scheme.
Or use a client which knows how to generate and set the desired
hashed passwords itself.

Kurt

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