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List:       perl-ldap-dev
Subject:    Re: display userPassword command line
From:       Chris Ridd <chrisridd () mac ! com>
Date:       2006-12-01 10:06:05
Message-ID: C195AF0D.1E9701%chrisridd () mac ! com
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On 1/12/06 9:55, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> --On Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:20 PM -0800 lancerset@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> When i export a user's userPassword attribute from the command line
>> using the ldapsearch tool,  i get the encrypted password
>> "userPassword:: YmF0NjM2NQ=="  .When i export a user's attributes using
>> phpldapadmin i get the password unecrpyted 'userPassword: redcar' Does
>> anyone know how you can get the userPassword in plain unencrypted text
>> from the command line ldapsearch tool.
> 
> This is not an encrypted value.  It is an encoded value.  As per various
> RFC's, userPassword is MIME base64 encoded.  Simply decode it.

It is only base64 encoded in the context of an LDIF file. Anyway, a hint on
how to decode it:

    % perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print decode_base64("YmF0NjM2NQ=="),"\n";'
    bat365

Cheers,

Chris


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