Udm user password format

UCS - Univention Corporate Server
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have an existing ldap userbase and I am trying to migrate it to UCS LDAP. Regarding passwords, what is an acceptable syntax for the password param, i.e.:

udm users/user create .. --set password=<..>

namely, what kind of hashes/crypt inputs are accepted?

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Hi,

sorry to say, but for udm only plaintext passwords are acceptable.

So you could set a default password and force your users to change it after login. OR directly write the password into the LDAP directory.

So possibly you could create the user by udm with a default password set and afterwards get the DN of this user and write the crypted password to the corresponding attribute of this user.

/CV

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Hey,

to expand why you cannot simply hand over existing hashes: in UCS domains passwords are required to be stored in three different places with three different types of hashing:

  • The regular Unix password hashes (LDAP attribute userPassword)
  • The old Windows NT-style hashed password (LDAP attribute sambaNTPassword)
  • The Kerberos password (LDAP attribute krb5Key)

The system can only create (hash with the corresponding algorithm) all of them from the plain text, unencrypted, unhashed password.

Migrating from a system that doesn’t provide all three attributes therefore requires setting new passwords for all users.

Kind regards,
mosu