Re: userPassword issues

[Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>]

On 04/01/13 22:55 +0300, Bbaale Fred wrote:
> The attribute is different after running ldappasswd on it even thought I am pretty sure that its the same password.
>
> I still have the ldiff file. If I decoded the userPasswords in the ldiff file and did a slapadd again, would it work?

What format are the passwords in, in your original slapcat'd file (after
uudecoding)? Do they contain a prefix ({crypt})?

> On Apr 1, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
>
> > On 04/01/13 22:28 +0300, Bbaale Fred wrote:
> > > My users can not login after a successful database migration from ldbm to bdb.
> > >
> > > I did slapcat and slapadd my ldiff file sucessfully, but the userPassword attribute seems to have been modified.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now for a user to login, i have to first change their password, or at least appear to do that.
> > > After doing a ldappasswd, even with the old password, the user can login.
> > >
> > >
> > > Your help is needed , as I do not want to change passwords for 2000 users.
> > >
> > > Fred Bbaale
> >
> > What difference, if any, do you see in a user's entry (using ldapsearch)
> > before and after running ldappasswd on it?
> >
> > --
> > Dan White

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Dan White