Derrick dman Hudson said:

> SSHA is Salted SHA.  The difference between SSHA and SHA is the salt used
> in the beginning (which is also why you can get different values out for
> the same input, which makes it harder to crack).  I think
> SSHA is what openldap tends to use when you set a password field.

ahh ok

>
> However, in the slapd.conf file I think it is supposed to be
> plain-text.  So either change that line to read rootpw  password or type
> in '{SSHA}JuaWFhw+AXDgppTgOJPtpZARL1PpWRoj' as the password.
> When I set up openldap it was a plain-text entry in the config file.

it can be encrypted too, but you need to specify the encryption type

e.g.

password-hash   {MD5}
rootpw          {MD5}2hpVc0nyXGQbGjaK9bIYpw==

at least it works for MD5, never tried SHA or SSHA

nate




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