Re: Solaris 10 LDAP Password issue

[Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:21:19PM +0100, John Gee wrote:

> i have a problem with Solaris 10 LDAP password encryption to a OpenLDAP Server.
> When setting a inital Password with ldapadd login works fine, after the user changed inital Password on a Solaris-Station with 'passwd -r ldap' Solaris commited it with 'password successfully changed for john'. But the user cant login with the new Password.
> 
> 1) Setting initial Password with ldapadd (Password: 8ASdhXY!Xy)
>    version: 1
>    dn: uid=john,ou=people,ou=unix,o=kleinfeld,c=ch
>    userPassword: {MD5}khVDRrTSYMHjTw7V6VEZwg==
> 2) User Login and change password with 'passwd -r ldap' (Password: 9DnxSF!dKS)
>    version: 1
>    dn: uid=john,ou=people,ou=unix,o=kleinfeld,c=ch
>    userPassword: {crypt}0vUAwIdPR4X2E
> 
> Has someone a idea whats going wrong?

Did you build OpenLDAP with the --enable-crypt option? It will not
understand {crypt} format without that.

Andrew
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