By default, the OpenDS LDAP directory server password policy is set to reject encrypted passwords, as it cannot check that they match the quality requirements.
So when adding or importing data with encrypted passwords, the server returns some error like this:
LDAP: error code 53 – Pre-encoded passwords are not allowed for the password attribute userPassword
To allow pre-encoded passwords, the default password policy settings must be changed. This can be done using the dsconfig command line tool in advanced mode:
$ dsconfig --advanced -p 4444 -h localhost -D "cn=directory manager" -X
>>>> Specify OpenDS LDAP connection parameters
Password for user 'cn=directory manager':
>>>> OpenDS configuration console main menu
What do you want to configure?
1) Access Control Handler 24) Monitor Provider
2) Account Status Notification 25) Network Group
Handler
3) Administration Connector 26) Network Group Criteria
4) Alert Handler 27) Network Group Request Filtering
Policy
5) Attribute Syntax 28) Network Group Resource Limits
6) Backend 29) Password Generator
7) Certificate Mapper 30) Password Policy
8) Connection Handler 31) Password Storage Scheme
9) Crypto Manager 32) Password Validator
10) Debug Target 33) Plugin
11) Entry Cache 34) Plugin Root
12) Extended Operation Handler 35) Replication Domain
13) Extension 36) Replication Server
14) Global Configuration 37) Root DN
15) Group Implementation 38) Root DSE Backend
16) Identity Mapper 39) SASL Mechanism Handler
17) Key Manager Provider 40) Synchronization Provider
18) Local DB Index 41) Trust Manager Provider
19) Local DB VLV Index 42) Virtual Attribute
20) Log Publisher 43) Work Queue
21) Log Retention Policy 44) Workflow
22) Log Rotation Policy 45) Workflow Element
23) Matching Rule
q) quit
Enter choice: 30
>>>> Password Policy management menu
What would you like to do?
1) List existing Password Policies
2) Create a new Password Policy
3) View and edit an existing Password Policy
4) Delete an existing Password Policy
b) back
q) quit
Enter choice [b]: 3
>>>> Select the Password Policy from the following list:
1) Default Password Policy
2) Root Password Policy
c) cancel
q) quit
Enter choice [c]: 1
>>>> Configure the properties of the Password Policy
Property Value(s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1) account-status-notification-handler -
2) allow-expired-password-changes false
3) allow-multiple-password-values false
4) allow-pre-encoded-passwords false
5) allow-user-password-changes true
6) default-password-storage-scheme Salted SHA-1
7) deprecated-password-storage-scheme -
8) expire-passwords-without-warning false
9) force-change-on-add false
10) force-change-on-reset false
11) grace-login-count 0
12) idle-lockout-interval 0 s
13) last-login-time-attribute -
14) last-login-time-format -
15) lockout-duration 0 s
16) lockout-failure-count 0
17) lockout-failure-expiration-interval 0 s
18) max-password-age 0 s
19) max-password-reset-age 0 s
20) min-password-age 0 s
21) password-attribute userpassword
22) password-change-requires-current-password false
23) password-expiration-warning-interval 5 d
24) password-generator Random Password Generator
25) password-history-count 0
26) password-history-duration 0 s
27) password-validator -
28) previous-last-login-time-format -
29) require-change-by-time -
30) require-secure-authentication false
31) require-secure-password-changes false
32) skip-validation-for-administrators false
33) state-update-failure-policy reactive
?) help
f) finish - apply any changes to the Password Policy
c) cancel
q) quit
Enter choice [f]: 4
>>>> Configuring the "allow-pre-encoded-passwords" property
Indicates whether users can change their passwords by providing a
pre-encoded value.
This can cause a security risk because the clear-text version of the
password is not known and therefore validation checks cannot be applied to
it.
Do you want to modify the "allow-pre-encoded-passwords" property?
1) Keep the default value: false
2) Change it to the value: true
?) help
q) quit
Enter choice [1]: 2
Press RETURN to continue
>>>> Configure the properties of the Password Policy
Property Value(s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1) account-status-notification-handler -
2) allow-expired-password-changes false
3) allow-multiple-password-values false
4) allow-pre-encoded-passwords true
5) allow-user-password-changes true
6) default-password-storage-scheme Salted SHA-1
7) deprecated-password-storage-scheme -
8) expire-passwords-without-warning false
9) force-change-on-add false
10) force-change-on-reset false
11) grace-login-count 0
12) idle-lockout-interval 0 s
13) last-login-time-attribute -
14) last-login-time-format -
15) lockout-duration 0 s
16) lockout-failure-count 0
17) lockout-failure-expiration-interval 0 s
18) max-password-age 0 s
19) max-password-reset-age 0 s
20) min-password-age 0 s
21) password-attribute userpassword
22) password-change-requires-current-password false
23) password-expiration-warning-interval 5 d
24) password-generator Random Password Generator
25) password-history-count 0
26) password-history-duration 0 s
27) password-validator -
28) previous-last-login-time-format -
29) require-change-by-time -
30) require-secure-authentication false
31) require-secure-password-changes false
32) skip-validation-for-administrators false
33) state-update-failure-policy reactive
?) help
f) finish - apply any changes to the Password Policy
c) cancel
q) quit
Enter choice [f]:
The Password Policy was modified successfully
Press RETURN to continue
The equivalent non interactive command is:
$ dsconfig set-password-policy-prop \
--policy-name "Default Password Policy" \
--set allow-pre-encoded-passwords:true \
--hostname localhost \
--trustAll \
--port 4444 \
--bindDN "cn=directory manager" \
--bindPassword ****** \
--no-prompt
Alternately, this can be done over LDAP (although it’s not officially supported):
$ bin/ldapmodify -Z -X -p 4444 -h localhost -D "cn=directory manager"
Password for user 'cn=directory manager':
dn: cn=Default Password Policy,cn=Password Policies,cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: ds-cfg-allow-pre-encoded-passwords
ds-cfg-allow-pre-encoded-passwords: true
Processing MODIFY request for cn=Default Password Policy,cn=Password Policies,cn=config
MODIFY operation successful for DN cn=Default Password Policy,cn=Password Policies,cn=config
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The OpenDS LDAP directory service has been designed to work well for hosted services. A single directory server can be used to store information for multiple companies either sharing the same database backend, or in separated database backends. The OpenDS tools such as dsconfig or dsreplication focus on the user visible aspect: the Naming Context, also known as the “Base DN”, the starting point of the directory information tree for a given company.
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