Re: 2.0.4: inserting password

[Jie Gao <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au>]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:47:05 -0700
> From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
> To: Jie Gao <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au>
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: 2.0.4: inserting password 
> 
> At 09:01 AM 10/4/00 +1100, Jie Gao wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have been trying to run a batch job to populate the database using
> >perl-ldap. This includes inserting passwords, straight from a password
> >file, along with other data.
> >
> >This is an example of what I used:
> >
> >            userPassword        =>      '{crypt}testtest',
> >
> >But the search result shows something like:
> >
> >    userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXRlc3R0ZXN0
> >
> >'{crypt}'is not there anymore. This used to work with v1.2.
> 
> Note the double colon.  This means the value is base64 encoded.
> 
>   perl <<EOF
>   use MIME::Base64;
>   print "userPasswd=\"" . decode_base64('e2NyeXB0fXRlc3R0ZXN0') . "\"\n";
>   EOF
>   userPasswd="{crypt}testtest"

I like this little piece of code. :-) 

Thanks, and thanks to all who replied.


Jie