From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020227 Description of problem: GQ puts the encrypted password into ldap in hex form. The standard seems to be base64 encoded, thus, the new passwords wouldn't work when authenticating against OpenLDAP. Also, gq doesn't have support for the more secure ssha and smd5 methods. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run gq against an openldap server 2.modify a user password 3.attempt to authenticate Actual Results: The user cannot authenticate Expected Results: The user should be able to authenticate Additional info: I have created two patches that fix both of these problems. The first is at http://www.kgarner.com/code/gq/gq-0.4.0.openldap-passwd-encoding.diff The first patch fixes the encoding. The second patch is at http://www.kgarner.com/code/gq/gq-0.4.0.encode-ssha+smd5.diff This patch adds the ssha and smd5 encoding methods.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.