Re: how can you tell if md5 is in use

[Jason Joines <joines@bus.okstate.edu>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 01:17 PM 10/11/2004, Jason Joines wrote:
>
> >  I'm trying to get user passwords stored in md5 format in my OpenLDAP 2.2.6 directory.  I changed by own password, then did a dump of the database via slapcat and looked at userPassword expecting to see somthing like {MD5}somestring.
>
>
> Note that slapcat, as well as ldapsearch, use LDIF base64 encoding
> option for values of userPassword (as indicated by the '::').
> Use your favorite base64 decoder to see the actual value transferred.
>
> Kurt 

	Thanks for the information.  I didn't even think about that.  I was 
able to decode and see that it is using MD5 hash.

Jason
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