.TH SLAPPASSWD 8C "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
.\" $OpenLDAP$
-.\" Copyright 1998-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
.SH NAME
slappasswd \- OpenLDAP password utility
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}
.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.
.SH LIMITATIONS
The practice storing hashed passwords in userPassword violates