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Re: Authentication

To: "David E. Storey" <dave@tamos.net>
Subject: Re: Authentication
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@openldap.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:16:38 -0800
Cc: openldap-general@openldap.org
In-reply-to: <36752BA0.B5943CE4@tamos.net>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981214132859.25642B-100000@fish.nybble.org>

At 10:15 AM 12/14/98 -0500, David E. Storey wrote:
>LDAP stores an entry's password in the attribute "userPassword".  The field
>can contain a plaintext password or a crypted password denoted by
>"{crypt}YYeaEGw9PJMgg". (this would be the encoding for "boo")  The next
>version of OpenLDAP will have support for sha1 and md5 hashed passwords and
>will include a utility to update passwords in an LDAP server.

For clarification,

OpenLDAP 1.1 slapd supports for crypt(3), md5, and sha1.  Dave's
ldappasswd client, however, will be available in until the next
release.

Kurt

References:
- Re: Authentication
  - From: Brian Baggett <brianb@nybble.org>
- Re: Authentication
  - From: "David E. Storey" <dave@tamos.net>

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