Jim,
You can change this in the slapd.ldbm.conf file...Remember, this is a global
change.
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/directory/41/admin/config.htm#1134817
Ian
Jim McCullars wrote:
> I plan to populate a new directory server using information in the
> /etc/passwd (and related) files on a Digital Unix machine. The default
> password encryption scheme on the directory server is SHA, but I noticed
> that the userpassword attribute always begins with {SHA}, which led me
> to believe I could do something like this in ldapmodify:
>
> dn: uid=xxx,ou=people,dc=uah,dc=edu
> changetype:modify
> replace:userpassword
> userpassword:{crypt}xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> where the string of x's is the encrypted password from the DEC Unix
> machine. But when I do that then try to bind with the same clear-text
> password as I have on the Unix box, it doesn't authenticate. Should
> this work?
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