UserPassword attribute problem using Crypt

["Allan E. Johannesen" <aej@WPI.EDU>]

>>>>> "mely2k5" == Manuel Mely <mely2k5@gmail.com> writes:

mely2k5> The problem is that UserPassword attribute only takes the first eight
mely2k5> characters and the next characters until the password chain is not
mely2k5> taken.  For example:

mely2k5> The clear password is p2gh467d2k31 (and the crypt, ...

It's not LDAP, it's the chosen password hash that is limiting.

UNIX {crypt} only takes only up to 8 characters in and always puts out 13
characters.

Your friend can use {SSHA} instead of {crypt}.