On July 14, 2001 01:42 pm, pop corn wrote:
> From the example in Life with Qmail-LDAP, Section 4.5. Filling the
> Directory:
>
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/#Filling the Directory
> ...
> uid: elvis
> userPassword: {MD5}X03MO1qnZdYdgyfeuILPmQ==
>
Yes, that page makes it look so obvious, doesn't it? ;-)
> I have been trying to figure out how Henning created Elvis's MD5 password.
> Exactly how are you creating the MD5 password?
I don't know how else to create an MD5 password. I found slappasswd in
/usr/local/sbin and started to use it. My assumption is that it is a feature
of OpenLDAP 2.0.11. There is, apparently a tool - ldappasswd - that will
change the password field of a user, but I haven't tried that one out yet and
I don't know what encryption methods it supports. Try looking it up on your
system.
> Also, how do you intend to generate the MD5 password on an production basis
> for new users? It's one thing for me to generate an MD5 password from the
> command line for my test case, it's another to do this for a lot of users.
My intention is to script it so that the output of slappasswd is redirected
into an ldif that I'm generating on the fly. Something like this will append
the appropriate line to my temp ldif:
echo userPassword: `/usr/local/sbin/slappasswd -h {md5} -s $PASS` >>
$LDIF
> Thank you so much for responding so quickly.
No problem. Good luck! :-D
-Eric
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