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Description
This function replaces the deprecated
Directory Server releases.
When the Directory Server stores the password for an entry in the
attribute, it encodes the password using different schemes. Supported schemes are
SSHA
Use this function to determine if a given password is one of the values of the
userpassword
used to store the password and uses the appropriate comparison function to
compare a given value against the encoded values of the
See Also
slapi_is_encoded()
slapi_encode()
slapi_is_encoded()
Checks whether the specified value is encoded with any known algorithm.
Syntax
#include "slapi-plugin.h"
int slapi_is_encoded(char *value);
Parameters
This function takes the following parameters:
value
Returns
This function returns one of the following values:
•
1
•
0
See Also
slapi_pw_find_sv()
slapi_encode()
(default), , , and
SHA CRYPT
attribute. This function determines which password scheme was
The value, the encoding status of which needs to be determined.
if the value is encoded.
if the value is not encoded.
slapi_pw_find()
.
CLEAR
Functions for Handling Passwords
function from previous
userpassword
attribute.
userpassword
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