On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0500, Dane Foster wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm not on the list but I'm hoping someone can help me nonetheless.
>
> I'm a Java programmer working w/ OpenLDAP on Linux. OpenLDAP supports the
> use of hashed passwords for binding, unfortunately it does do the hashing
> for you so this is where my direct use of OpenSSL comes in. As a simple
> test I issued the following command at the console:
>
> $ echo "password" |openssl dgst -sha1 -binary| openssl base64
>
> I get the following output: yP7QDrLofxzujpDrvocMGQrDhIw=
>
>
> I wrote a simple Java class to verify that the program would generate the
> same hash that would be in the server. No such luck. It generates the
> following:
> W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g=
>
The difference happens because echo version includes a newline. Something
like:
perl -e 'print "password";' |openssl dgst -sha1 -binary| openssl base64
gets you: W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g=
vh
Mads Toftum
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