Re: problem with cleartext password setup

[Pat Riehecky <prieheck@iwu.edu>]

Thank you!

I am an idiot..... (but a happy one!)

Pat


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:08 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On February 5, 2008 1:14:35 PM -0600 Pat Riehecky <prieheck@iwu.edu> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Strangely they are not prefixed with the {HASHTYPE}.
> >
> > When I run
> > ldappasswd -H ldapi:/// -D "cn=testuser,dc=iwu,dc=edu" -w Please -x -s
> > please
> >
> > In LDAP I get
> >
> > userPassword:: cGxlYXNl
> >
> > What did I do?
> 
> You failed to understand the difference between hashes and encoding. 
> userPassword is base-64 encoded.  Decode it to see what the actual value is.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
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> 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
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