Re: change password for user

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Ströder
Zhang Huangbin wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> so it would be nice to have
>>> the directory server do the hashing instead. I've found the
>>> method:
>>>
>>> passwd_s(user, oldpw, newpw, [serverctrls=None, [clientctrls=None]])
>>>
>>> but are there any way to use that when I don't know the plaintext
>>> 'oldpw' ?
>>> 
>>
>> Simply use None for oldpw.
> 
> How can i specfy hash mechanism in passwd_s()? like SSHA, MD5.

You don't. That's completely configured at the server's side.

> It seems use default setting of ldap server (password-hash in openldap
> slapd.conf),

Yes. Other LDAP servers might have a different configuration. Also some
servers set other password attributes as well (e.g. the smbk5pwd overlay
for OpenLDAP sets Samba password attributes and the Kerberos keys for a
heimdal KDC).

Ciao, Michael.

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Re: change password for user

2009-03-09 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Michael Ströder wrote:
> Yes. Other LDAP servers might have a different configuration. Also some
> servers set other password attributes as well (e.g. the smbk5pwd overlay
> for OpenLDAP sets Samba password attributes and the Kerberos keys for a
> heimdal KDC).
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>
>   

Thanks Michael. :)

How can i set DEFAULT password-hash in slapd.conf? such as MD5 or whatever.


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Re: change password for user

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Ströder
Zhang Huangbin wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Yes. Other LDAP servers might have a different configuration. Also some
>> servers set other password attributes as well (e.g. the smbk5pwd overlay
>> for OpenLDAP sets Samba password attributes and the Kerberos keys for a
>> heimdal KDC).
> 
> How can i set DEFAULT password-hash in slapd.conf? such as MD5 or whatever.

That's more a question for the openldap-software mailing list. Since you
already found the password-hash parameter you could simply use it:

password-hash   {SSHA}

Ciao, Michael.

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Re: change password for user

2009-03-09 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On 2009-03-09, Michael Ströder  wrote:
> >
> > But, it occurred to me that I'm not fully sure what I'm doing
> > when creating the SSHA1 hash,
>
> If the password is usable afterwards there's nothing wrong with
> client-side password hashing. The salt should be at least 4 bytes long.

Still, I'm uncertain how f.ex. character encodings will/should be
handled, so it seems safer to let the directory server handle both the
hashing and verification. 

> 
> Simply use None for oldpw.
> 

It didn't like None:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./update-ldap-from-atmail.py", line 166, in ?
con.passwd_s( dn, None, mailpassword )
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 330, in 
passwd_s
msgid = self.passwd(user,oldpw,newpw,serverctrls,clientctrls)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 327, in 
passwd
return 
self._ldap_call(self._l.passwd,user,oldpw,newpw,EncodeControlTuples(serverctrls),EncodeControlTuples(clientctrls))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 94, in 
_ldap_call
result = func(*args,**kwargs)
TypeError: argument 2 must be string or read-only buffer, not None

but "" seems to work (after I set up SSL to get around the 
ldap.CONFIDENTIALITY_REQUIRED). Thanks!



   -jf


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Re: change password for user

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Ströder
Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On 2009-03-09, Michael Ströder  wrote:
>>> But, it occurred to me that I'm not fully sure what I'm doing
>>> when creating the SSHA1 hash,
>> If the password is usable afterwards there's nothing wrong with
>> client-side password hashing. The salt should be at least 4 bytes long.
> 
> Still, I'm uncertain how f.ex. character encodings will/should be
> handled, so it seems safer to let the directory server handle both the
> hashing and verification. 

For LDAPv3 you should pass UTF-8 to the python-ldap functions/methods or
before hashing the password. (In theory one has to use SASLprep before
the UTF-8 encoding but in most cases this is the same).

Ciao, Michael.

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