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Re: userPassword attribute - cleartext but still being encrypted ?

ons, 2002-10-09 kl. 10:52 skrev David Wilson:

> I'm coding a utility that needs to have the "userPassword" attribute's values as clear text.
> At the moment my sample input ldif file contains the following:
> userPassword: password
> I then add the ldif with "ldapadd", after it's added successfully I do an "ldapsearch" and it shows the following for "userPassword":

> userPassword:: d29yZHBhc3M=

Ermm . that's not encrypted, it's base64 coding.

In a terminal console, do 'mimencode -u', (if you have mimencode on your
machine) then paste what you have above and hit enter. The result will
surprise you :-)

Best,

Tony

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