On 1/12/06 9:55, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --On Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:20 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> When i export a user's userPassword attribute from the command line
>> using the ldapsearch tool, i get the encrypted password
>> "userPassword:: YmF0NjM2NQ==" .When i export a user's attributes using
>> phpldapadmin i get the password unecrpyted 'userPassword: redcar' Does
>> anyone know how you can get the userPassword in plain unencrypted text
>> from the command line ldapsearch tool.
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> This is not an encrypted value. It is an encoded value. As per various
> RFC's, userPassword is MIME base64 encoded. Simply decode it.
It is only base64 encoded in the context of an LDIF file. Anyway, a hint on
how to decode it:
% perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print decode_base64("YmF0NjM2NQ=="),"\n";'
bat365
Cheers,
Chris
