Hashed Password Representation In Ldif Files; Debugging Ldif Files - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 Troubleshooting Manual

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10 mail: Peter.Michaels@aaa.com
11 userpassword: Peter123
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Hashed Password Representation in LDIF Files

The hashed password is represented as base64 data in the LDIF file. The attribute name
userpassword should be followed with the name of the encryption used for hashing the password.
This name should be given within a pair of flower brackets "{ }" as shown below:
Example 1
For SHA hashed passwords:
1 version: 1
2 dn: cn=Peter Michaels, ou=Artists, l=San Francisco, c=US
3 sn: Michaels
4 userpassword: {SHA}xcbdh46ngh37jsd0naSFDedjAS30dm
5 objectclass: inetOrgPerson
Example 2
For SSHA hashed passwords:
1 version: 1
2 dn: cn=Peter Michaels, ou=Artists, l=San Francisco, c=US
3 sn: Michaels
4 userpassword: {SSHA}sGs948DFGkakdfkasdDF34DF4dS3skl5DFS
5 objectclass: inetOrgPerson
Example 3
For Digest MD5 hashed passwords:
1 version: 1
2 dn: cn=Peter Michaels, ou=Artists, l=San Francisco, c=US
3 sn: Michaels
4 userpassword: {MD5}a45lkSDF234SDFG62dsfsf2DG2QEvgdmnk430
5 objectclass: inetOrgPerson

Debugging LDIF Files

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"Enabling Forward References" on page 29
"Checking the Syntax of LDIF Files" on page 31