On 09/21/2011 05:48 PM, David Dumortier wrote:
Hello,
I tried to set a password with the -T option. It failed so I tried -d 11 to see the dump in hexa. I discovered that a 0xa is append to the password. Is it a bug ? if so please confirm I will open a bugreport.
slappasswd hashes the contents of the file, whatever it is. Usually, one should generate a file that contains a single line without a newline (0xa) at the end. For example:
$ echo "secret" > x && slappasswd -T x -h '{CLEARTEXT}' | od -c Warning: Password file x is publicly readable/writeable 0000000 s e c r e t \n \n 0000010 $ echo -n "secret" > x && slappasswd -T x -h '{CLEARTEXT}' | od -c Warning: Password file x is publicly readable/writeable 0000000 s e c r e t \n 0000007
notice the extra '\n' you get when the file is terminated by a newline.
p.