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Re: Problem changing passwords after import

Rick Tautin wrote: 
Once I change the users password I can successfully do a ldapwhoami, so
I would assume that I am binding at that point.  I guess I am look on
how to proceed with users that have not had their passwords changed as
the manager.  Is there a different way that I should have imported them?

No, not really, short of cracking all of the crypt'd passwords so you could import their plaintext. The point is that you need to compile slapd with --enable-crypt and make sure that the crypt() routine you link with is the same one as (or compatible to) the system uses for its own authentication checks. As pointed out in the FAQ http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=1041 if you're using OpenSSL it's very likely that you've got the wrong one.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@symas.com] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:28 PM
To: Rick Tautin
Cc: Pierangelo Masarati; openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Problem changing passwords after import

Rick Tautin wrote:
The directory is the only place that there is user information. I
took
all the entries out of the old password file and the only thing that
is 
in there are the local accounts.  So if it is not getting its
credentials from the directory I don't know where it would be getting
it
from. Also when I stop the server I am unable to check mail or ftp to
our servers.

You're missing the crucial point that Unix services can authenticate
users against an LDAP database without performing an LDAP Bind operation on
that user. I.e., with sufficient privileges nss_ldap can just retrieve a
user's userPassword attribute and authenticate against it when it is stored in crypt(3) format, even if slapd doesn't itself support crypt (or the same
version of crypt). 

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