Hi all, I think I already know the answer, but I would like to be absolutely sure about it. Could I generate a {SSHA1} hash of a password (to be used for the rootdn account) with the help of slappasswd utility on a system and reuse that salted hash for the very same purpose but on a different operating system?
Thanks in advance again Marco
--On Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:23 AM +0200 Marco Pizzoli marco.pizzoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I think I already know the answer, but I would like to be absolutely sure about it. Could I generate a {SSHA1} hash of a password (to be used for the rootdn account) with the help of slappasswd utility on a system and reuse that salted hash for the very same purpose but on a different operating system?
If it is stored in LDAP, yes. It is not OS dependant, unlike the crypt scheme.
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Marco Pizzoli wrote:
I think I already know the answer, but I would like to be absolutely sure about it. Could I generate a {SSHA1} hash of a password (to be used for the rootdn account) with the help of slappasswd utility on a system and reuse that salted hash for the very same purpose but on a different operating system?
{SSHA} (salted SHA-1) is platform-independent.
In opposite to that {CRYPT} is not the same on all platforms depending on implemented hash-schemes of crypt(3) function.
Ciao, Michael.
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