[Fedora-directory-users] cleartext password

Richard Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Fri May 5 15:17:47 UTC 2006


Mikael Kermorgant wrote:
> 2006/5/5, David Boreham <david_list at boreham.org>:
>>
>> >
>> > That's good and bad news for me !
>> > Good news is it's possible, bad news is that writing a plugin is
>> > something too complicated for my computing skills :(
>> > Still any hope for my situation ?
>>
>> I'm thinking that the password in question will be auto-generated
>> from some script that creates new users , no ? If so then I'd simply
>> have that script dump the plaintext password into the external
>> database and generate letters from that.
>
> Yes, I think I'll use that solution.
> Just a last question : if I create a user wia DSGW, will I be able to
> catch the password to put it in my database with something different
> of a plugin ?
Well, it's a bit of a hack, but what you could do is rename the binary 
clients/dsgw/bin/newentry to be newentry.bin, and create a shell script 
newentry, and have it dump out stdin to a file before passing it to 
newentry.bin
>
> Thanks !
> -- 
> Mikael Kermorgant
>
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