--On Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:20 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html

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