slappasswd

slappasswd is used to generate an userPassword value suitable for use with ldapmodify or slapd.conf rootpw configuration directive.

Documentation

• man 8 'slappasswd' [EN]

Syntax

slappasswd [PARAMETER ...]

Parameters

-h SCHEME

If -h is specified, one of the following RFC 2307 schemes may be specified: {CRYPT}, {MD5}, {SMD5}, {SSHA}, and {SHA}. The default is {SSHA}.

• {SHA} and {SSHA} use the SHA-1 algorithm (FIPS 160-1), the latter with a seed.
• {MD5} and {SMD5} use the MD5 algorithm (RFC 1321), the latter with a seed.
• {CRYPT} uses the crypt.
• {CLEARTEXT} indicates that the new password should be added to userPassword as clear text.

NOTE:

The scheme names may need to be protected, due to { and }, from expansion by the user's command interpreter.