Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 Developer's Guide

Description

When the server stores the password for an entry in the userpassword attribute, it hashes the password using different schemes.

Use this function to determine if a given password is one of the values of the userpassword attribute. This function determines which password scheme was used to store the password and uses the appropriate comparison function to compare a given value against the hashed values of the userpassword attribute.