Re: how to generate passwords?

["tarjei@nu.no" <tarjei@nu.no>]

You may also take a look at the mkntpass program. I think it's fairly 
easy to find if you read any of the samba-tng w/ldap howtos.

PS: I would apreciate if the finished phpscript would be made available 
to me (and the general public).


Yours,

Tarjei Huse

ivan wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
>
> I do not know much about PHP, but if you running linux (e.g RH 7.2 you can 
> use mkpasswd to get a random string and pass it crypt to generate encrypted 
> password.
>
>
>
> > I've set up OpenLDAP to do user authentication for a server and now I'm
> > trying to make a script so user could change their password from the web
> > in PHP but I can generate the password using the crypt function in PHP
> > and putting {crypt}whateverpassword  in the userPassword attribute and I
> > can log in using SSH but I can't bind using the script I made anymore.
> > Anybody could help me with a way to generate passwords in PHP? And also
> > how do you generate password for the lmPassword and ntPassword? Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Jean-Rene Cormier