Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS equivalent of OpenLDAP's password-crypt-salt-format?

[Rich Megginson]

Alan Hagge wrote:
>  Does anyone know if FDS has the equivalent of OpenLDAP's
>  password-crypt-salt-format option?  It's used to specify the format of
>  the salt used in crypt encryption.  Specifically, I need a way to have
>  md5crypt passwords generated by an "ldap password modify" extended
>  operation.  I'm trying to support Irix, Linux and Windows (using samba)
>  hosts, and unfortunately, Irix only supports crypt-format passwords, but
>  WILL use the md5 salted variant, which (as I understand it) is much more
>  secure than the standard DES version.
>
>  It looks like Sun's enterprise directory server supports this through an
>  optional parameter passed to its crypt password storage scheme plugin
>  (see http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0376/6nc4cgnh4?a=view , topic
>  6557410), but in looking over the FDS source for this plugin, I don't
>  see where this has been implemented.
>     
FDS does not support this.  Please file an enhancement request at 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora Directory Server.  Or, if you are 
a C coder, http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contributing
>  Thanks for any hints, tips, etc.
>
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