Inserting userPassword attribute programatically

["James Courtney" <Jcourtney@inphonic.com>]

I'm running OpenLDAP 2.1.25.  I'm creating several entries
programatically using Net::LDAP for perl.  Does anyone know how I should
be adding the userPassword attribute?

I try to just add the plain password string like the code snippet below
and all the entries add fine but I end up with no value for the
userPassword attribute for each entry.  Do I need to convert to a
different data type before adding?  Any assistance would be great.
Thanks!

Jamey


my $userentry = Net::LDAP::Entry->new() or die "some message";
$userentry->dn($userdn);
...
$userentry->add("userPassword" => $userpassword);
...
my $mesg = $ldap->add($userentry);
if ($mesg->code)
{
	printf "\nsome other error message " . $mesg->error;
}


My core.schema shows this:

# system schema
#attributetype ( 2.5.4.35 NAME 'userPassword'
#       DESC 'RFC2256/2307: password of user'
#       EQUALITY octetStringMatch
#       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.40{128} )