want to encrypt password in slapd.conf

[Alan Womack <arwbackup@worldnet.att.net>]

I created a SSHA password and placed it into my slapd.conf file in the format

{SSHA} xy^ahuk2ki  <- not really a password!

and restarted ldap via:

/etc/init.d/ldap restart

thereafter I was not able to bind due to invalid credentials.

What is the proper way for me to take my plaintext password and make ldap use it as a secure password?

Alan