Hi Emmanuel, Thanks for your mail & information.
Yes, as you said I stored the password in "Plain Text". I'm trying to retrieve the password by using JNDI, but still I could'nt get the exact password value. Thanks & Regards UdayaKiran.Ala On 12/12/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UdayaKiran Ala wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm using Apache Directory Server 1.5.0 for our application > authentication. > > > > I need to retrieve the cleartext password (userPassword) by using JAVA > API > > > > Any idea? > > > It depends... If the password is stored as clear text into the server, > no problem (beside the huge security concern, of course !) : do a search > with (uid=<your user ID>) and get the userPassword attribute using JNDI. > If the password is encrypted using (S)SHA, (S)MD5 or crypt, there is no > way you can get the clear text from it. > > Thanks in Advance, > > > > Regards > > UdayaKiran.Ala > > > > > > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
