[Fedora-directory-users] encryption userPassword

[Michael Ströder]

Ivan Ferreira wrote:
> If i'm not wrong, this is because these encription algorithms uses an
> "initialization vector (IV)".

An IV for MD5? I seriously doubt that. Note that MD5 is not reversible 
encryption. It's a hash algorithm (one-way encryption). Maybe you're talking 
about adding a salt? But this would be password scheme {SMD5} not {MD5}.

BTW: {SSHA} should be preferred!

To make things more clear here are good explanations which also apply to 
FDS: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/419.html

Ciao, Michael.