Re: how to enable crypt password in Openldap under Windows!!!

[Piotr Wadas <pwadas@jewish.org.pl>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:05 PM -0500 Hang Zhang <hzhang@cs.uno.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > C:\OpenLDAP>slappasswd -h {CRYPT}
> > New password: Re-enter new password: Password generation failed for
> > scheme {CRYPT}: scheme not recognized
> 
> 
> Using crypt is bad.
> 
> --Quanah
> 

Can you explain why it is bad? We use it mainly because we're 
moving our users and passwords from shadow files, is something
wrong with {CRYPT} passwords ? Is it deprecated, or something?
Regards,
Piotr