[Fedora-directory-users] UserPassword value in backend?

David Boreham david_list at boreham.org
Fri May 5 13:04:44 UTC 2006


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> The user is added to the database succefully.I can able to see the 
> encrypted password while retrieving it (but i am adding it using the 
> clear text format).
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>  I want to know how the password is actually stored in the database?

The hashed value is stored (much the same as /etc/passwd).
You can dump the database using db_dump -p (get the right version
for the version of BDB used in your FDS). The primary index is
the file id2entry.db4. That'll show you exactly what's stored.







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