Re: why is openldap not recognizing MD5 passwords?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> usually it should be possible to give a password like
>
> {MD5}digest
>
> to a userPassword attribute and openldap should be using it as an MD5 
> password hash. Instead, it is using it as a plain password. What is 
> going wrong there?

Assuming the above is the verbatim value you're trying to use, I note 
that "digest" is not a valid MD5 value (see RFC 3112 and RFC 1321).  
Otherwise, what value is not being treated as expected?  Can you post it?

p.



Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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