Re: How can I get OpenLDAP to hash passwords as crypt?

[David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>]

> As it stands now every client that 
> modifies userpasswords in the directory will need a compatible crypt() 
> function call.  Plus with a single crypt function the results of the 
> hash would be consistant.

There is actually an RFC for LDAP password-changing which defines a 
mechanism call EXOP. By now, most LDAP APIs should have implemented 
EXOP. ldappasswd, for example, is just a command-line wrapper around 
OpenLDAP's C implementation of an EXOP API.