.TH SLAPPASSWD 8C "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" $OpenLDAP$
-.\" Copyright 1998-2002 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2009 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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+.\" $OpenLDAP$
.SH NAME
slappasswd \- OpenLDAP password utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B SBINDIR/slappasswd
.B [\-v]
.B [\-u]
-.B [\-s secret]
+.B [\-g|\-s secret|\-T file]
.B [\-h hash]
.B [\-c salt-format]
+.B [\-n]
.B
.LP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Slappasswd
is used to generate an userPassword value
suitable for use with
-.BR ldapmodify (1)
-or
+.BR ldapmodify (1),
.BR slapd.conf (5)
.I rootpw
+configuration directive or the
+.BR slapd-config (5)
+.I olcRootPW
configuration directive.
+.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
enable verbose mode.
.TP
.B \-u
-Generate RFC2307 userPassword values (the default). Future
+Generate RFC 2307 userPassword values (the default). Future
versions of this program may generate alternative syntaxes
by default. This option is provided for forward compatibility.
.TP
.BI \-s " secret"
-The secret to hash. If not provided, the user will be prompted
-for the secret to hash.
+The secret to hash.
+If this,
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-T
+are absent, the user will be prompted for the secret to hash.
+.BR \-s ,
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-T
+and mutually exclusive flags.
+.TP
+.BI \-g
+Generate the secret.
+If this,
+.B \-s
+and
+.B \-T
+are absent, the user will be prompted for the secret to hash.
+.BR \-s ,
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-T
+and mutually exclusive flags.
+If this is present,
+.I {CLEARTEXT}
+is used as scheme.
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-h
+are mutually exclusive flags.
+.TP
+.BI \-T " file"
+Hash the contents of the file.
+If this,
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-s
+are absent, the user will be prompted for the secret to hash.
+.BR \-s ,
+.B \-g
+and
+.B \-T
+and mutually exclusive flags.
.TP
.BI \-h " scheme"
-If -h is specified, one of the following RFC2307 schemes may
+If -h is specified, one of the following RFC 2307 schemes may
be specified:
.IR {CRYPT} ,
.IR {MD5} ,
.IR {SHA} .
The default is
.IR {SSHA} .
+
+Note that scheme names may need to be protected, due to
+.B {
+and
+.BR } ,
+from expansion by the user's command interpreter.
+
+.B {SHA}
+and
+.B {SSHA}
+use the SHA-1 algorithm (FIPS 160-1), the latter with a seed.
+
+.B {MD5}
+and
+.B {SMD5}
+use the MD5 algorithm (RFC 1321), the latter with a seed.
+
+.B {CRYPT}
+uses the
+.BR crypt (3).
+
+.B {CLEARTEXT}
+indicates that the new password should be added to userPassword as
+clear text.
+Unless
+.I {CLEARTEXT}
+is used, this flag is incompatible with
+.BR \-g .
.TP
.BI \-c " crypt-salt-format"
Specify the format of the salt passed to
.BR sprintf (3)
format and may include one (and only one) %s conversion.
This conversion will be substituted with a string random
-characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./]. For example, "%.2s"
-provides a two character salt and "$1$%.8s" tells some
+characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./]. For example, '%.2s'
+provides a two character salt and '$1$%.8s' tells some
versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5 algorithm and provides
-8 random characters of salt. The default is "%s", which
+8 random characters of salt. The default is '%s', which
provides 31 characters of salt.
+.TP
+.BI \-n
+Omit the trailing newline; useful to pipe the credentials
+into a command.
.SH LIMITATIONS
-The practice storing hashed passwords in userPassword violates
-Standard Track (RFC2256) schema specifications and may hinder
-interoperability. A new attribute type to hold hashed
-passwords is needed.
+The practice of storing hashed passwords in userPassword violates
+Standard Track (RFC 4519) schema specifications and may hinder
+interoperability. A new attribute type, authPassword, to hold
+hashed passwords has been defined (RFC 3112), but is not yet
+implemented in
+.BR slapd (8).
+.LP
+It should also be noted that the behavior of
+.BR crypt (3)
+is platform specific.
.SH "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS"
Use of hashed passwords does not protect passwords during
protocol transfer. TLS or other eavesdropping protections
-should be inplace before using LDAP simple bind. The
-hashed password values should be protected as if they
+should be in\-place before using LDAP simple bind.
+.LP
+The hashed password values should be protected as if they
were clear text passwords.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ldappasswd (1),
.BR ldapmodify (1),
-.BR slapd (8)
-.BR slapd.conf (5)
+.BR slapd (8),
+.BR slapd.conf (5),
+.BR slapd\-config (5),
+.B RFC 2307
+.B RFC 4519
+.B RFC 3112
.LP
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by
-The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
-OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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