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Re: v3 passwords showing up as binary?

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: v3 passwords showing up as binary?
From: Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:01:14 +0100
In-reply-to: <001c01c3b90b$83a58ef0$fa0a0a0a@development> (Charlie Pauch's message of "Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:35:58 -0500")
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Hi,

"Charlie Pauch" <perlldap@wrkcs.net> writes:

> Thanks to antonio for all the help with slapadd.  I have another issue I just
> noticed.  When I do an ldapsearch, it's showing all my users' passwords
> differently.  They were entered as {crypt}etc.. but they show up as letters with
> no crypt at the beginning.  It seems to think that it's binary data instead of
> plain text.  Is there some way I can fix this?

It is only the base64 encoded value. It can be decoded with mmencode
using the flag -u, see man (1) mmecode.

-Dieter
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References:
- v3 passwords showing up as binary?
  - From: "Charlie Pauch" <perlldap@wrkcs.net>

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