[python-ldap] Create a LDIF file with SSHA passwords

[Michael Ströder]

Sébastien Douche wrote:
> I want to create users in a file (with a LDIFParser class, user names
> come from an another LDIF file). By defaults, the parser seems to write
> simple text password. How to write SSHA password?

The LDIFWriter simply outputs raw binary strings in text representation
compliant to [1].

If you want to generate salted SHA-1 password then simply generate them
according to [2] and then write LDIF output.

Ciao, Michael.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2849

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stroeder-hashed-userpassword-values

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Michael Ströder
E-Mail: michael at stroeder.com
http://www.stroeder.com

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