[Fedora-directory-users] Migrating RHEL users to Directory Server

[Joel Heenan]

Ok then so from my reading a bit more into how the Linux MD5 sum is
calculated it seems that because it includes a salt and is otherwise
mangled what I'm attempting to do is impossible and I'll need to get
users to set passwords manually. Is this correct?

I was hoping that I could take the Linux PAM MD5 and plonk it inside
Directory Server but this doesn't seem possible. Unless there is some
plugin designed for this that understands Linux MD5?

Thanks

Joel 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf 
> Of Jonathan Barber
> Sent: Monday, 24 December 2007 11:49 PM
> To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Migrating RHEL users to 
> Directory Server
> 
> 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
> 
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