On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:51:30PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: > Fedora Directory Users, > > I have a bunch of users currently using local RHEL 4 local unix user > accounts for their usernames and passwords and I would like to migrate > them to Directory Server. My question concerns the MD5 sum password. > > I tried adding a user joeltest with password joeltest and I got hash: > > JqBiQXU4$gnJeKmNzXy.kaXUaBIygs0 > > from RHEL but I got hash: > > WGvQgGYUH2UOX2ZA1IQeyQ== This value is the base64 encoded value of the md5 digest of the password, and is the same as the md5 digest of "joeltest": $ echo -n "joeltest" | openssl dgst -md5 -binary | openssl base64 WGvQgGYUH2UOX2ZA1IQeyQ== $ Regards. > >From Directory Server when I set the same password. > > I'm guessing this is to do with further encodings placed on the password > hash. Hoping someone has done this before and can point me in the right > direction? > > Thanks > > Joel -- Jonathan Barber High Performance Computing Analyst Tel. +44 (0) 1382 386389 -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
