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Re: encrypt the userpassword

To: "Fabrice Nouet" <f_nouet@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: encrypt the userpassword
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <kurt@boolean.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:36:18 -0800
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <19991206152414.70508.qmail@hotmail.com>

At 04:24 PM 12/6/99 CET, Fabrice Nouet wrote:
>Difficult to understand english documentation for encryption:
>
>I add entries from a file entry.ldif (ldapadd -f entry.ldif (describe 
>below)).
>But I try to encrypt the userpassword (adminfabrice) to mask it from anybody 
>(ldapsearch 'objectclass=*).
>How to do that ?

See ldappasswd(1).  OpenLDAP support authentication using encrypted
passwords, but requires client side to generate the encrypted values.

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Kurt D. Zeilenga		<kurt@boolean.net>
Net Boolean Incorporated	<http://www.boolean.net/>

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