----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:56
PM
Subject: RE: why doesn't my plain text
password show a plain text value?
Good
day,
Because passwords can hold characters that are not normally stored in
LDAP, they are Base64 encoded.
Note
that this is only to hold the password data; the Base64 data can be easily
decoded into plaintext. It goes without saying that you should use
encypted passwords. =)
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Darren Gamble
Planner,
Regional Services
Shaw Cablesystems
GP
630 - 3rd Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2P 4L4
(403) 781-4948
Hello list,
I'm using openLDAP 2.0.11 without sasl support
or SSL. I add users with plain text passwords, the value in the
ldif file is plain text and I'm not using any encryption method as far as I
can tell. But when I check the values in the
data base after a record has been added I see the password having some
other nonsensical value as if it's been encrypted. Does anyone
have any idea what's happening? I don't mind it and rather prefer it
this way but I'm curios. I've seen the same thing whether I use
openLDAP client commands or a Java program.
This is the command I'm using for adding
through openldap.
ldapmodify -a -d 1 -x -D
"cn=Directory Manager, dc=myDC, dc=com" -w secret -f
d:\openLDAP\ldifs\addUser.ldif