Re: userPassword attribute - cleartext but still being encrypted ?

["David Wilson" <dave@dcdata.co.za>]

Hi Tony,

You're a life saver !!
Thanks for the assistance, greatly appreciated.

Many thanks and kind regards.

David Wilson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Earnshaw" <tonni@billy.demon.nl>
To: "David Wilson" <dave@dcdata.co.za>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: 09 October 2002 01:54
Subject: Re: userPassword attribute - cleartext but still being encrypted ?


> ons, 2002-10-09 kl. 10:52 skrev David Wilson:
>
> > I'm coding a utility that needs to have the "userPassword" attribute's
values as clear text.
> > At the moment my sample input ldif file contains the following:
> > userPassword: password
> > I then add the ldif with "ldapadd", after it's added successfully I do
an "ldapsearch" and it shows the following for "userPassword":
>
> > userPassword:: d29yZHBhc3M=
>
> Ermm . that's not encrypted, it's base64 coding.
>
> In a terminal console, do 'mimencode -u', (if you have mimencode on your
> machine) then paste what you have above and hit enter. The result will
> surprise you :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Tony
>
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