Re: netware NDS homedirectory attribute/s and passwords?

[Gary F. <fl...@jm...>]

David Bussenschutt wrote:
> 
> Setting The Home Directory Attribute in Novell's NDS (and which NDS
> properties have to be assigned to LDAP attributes to do it)?
> 
> Setting the new user's password via LDAP?  (it's an attribute, but again I
> don't know which one, or how to set it!)

userPassword attribute. You'll have to supply a cleartext password
as Novell doesn't understand crypt, SHA, etc. Ergo, you'll want an
SSL connection for use over unsecure networks.

Paraphrased from a Novell Technical Information Document dated
6/21/99 "LDAP Password Change Policy for NLDAP v3.10:

The userPassword attribute will not appear in any search or compare result.

A password change by a user requires an atomic ldapmodify containing
both the existing and new passwords. The existing password is included 
as the value to be deleted (telling the server that the user knows the 
old password) and the new password is included as the value to be added.

An administrator may simply specify the new password.