Re: Using Password-hash to create secure passwords..

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

fuser9bb@hotpop.com wrote:

> I was about to complain that the posted FAQ entry talks about password 
> hashes (data), but not Password-hash (slapd.conf option), but I did 
> find an interesting tidbit:
>
> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/906.html
>
> So this doesn't answer the question, but it does let me rephase the 
> question.
>
> openldap-software:
>
> It seems to me then that it doesn't matter how I submit my 
> userPassword for an update as long as I meet these conditions:

You're not reading carefully enough.

As stated in the above FAQ article - password hashes are only used when 
setting a password with the Password Modify extended operation. Other 
operations just store whatever value you set, verbatim.

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