Re: ldapmodify not working

[Justin Lambert <justin.lambert@computility.com>]

Peter Marschall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:31, Justin Lambert wrote:
>
> > I am having a weird problem with not being able to modify an ldap entry.
> >  I created a user and whas having problems logging in, looking into it
> > I checked his hashed password and compared it to what slappasswd -h
> > {md5} generated and found they were different (using secret for the
> > encrypted pwds here):
> >
> > ldapsearch -xLLL -b -W o=iowanews,o=computility uid=administrator uid
> > userpassword
> > Enter LDAP Password:
> > dn: uid=administrator,ou=Users,o=iowanews,o=computility
> > uid: administrator
> > userPassword:: e01ENX1XRDRaUDNiRnB0UEVQZ3JSUTJHNmlnPT0=
>
>
> Attributes in LDIF files that have double colons are Base64 encoded (see 
> RFC2849).
> If you decode it you get the value
> 	{MD5}WD4ZP3bFptPEPgrRQ2G6ig==
>
> Peter

Hrmm I wonder how that ended up that way, the user was added with the 
same script that I use all of the time.  I guess I am confused why the 
entry isn't changing then when I use ldapmodify.

Thanks,
Justin