simple bind and crypt hash

["Kervin L. Pierre" <kervin@blueprint-tech.com>]

How does openldap hash the incoming bind password before comparing to 
the hash stored in ldap? ie.  How does it figure out the salt?

Does it use the password-crypt-salt-format to determine the salt?  The 
man page says salt format is only used with exop.

I'm asking this because crypting the password and then setting the 
userpassword attribute to that hash doesn't seem to work.  The only way 
that succeeds is if I set the userpassword attribute to the cleartext 
password.

--Kervin