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Salted SHA1 Password Storage Scheme

The Salted SHA1 Password Storage Scheme provides a mechanism for encoding user passwords using a salted form of the SHA-1 message digest algorithm.

This scheme contains an implementation for the user password syntax, with a storage scheme name of "SSHA", and an implementation of the auth password syntax, with a storage scheme name of "SHA1".

Parent Component

The Salted SHA1 Password Storage Scheme component inherits from the Password Storage Scheme




This page describes the Salted SHA1 Password Storage Scheme:


Properties

A description of each property follows.


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ enabled ↓ java-class

Basic Properties

enabled

Description
Indicates whether the Password Storage Scheme is enabled for use.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No


Advanced Properties

java-class

Description
Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java class that provides the Salted SHA1 Password Storage Scheme implementation.
Default Value
org.opends.server.extensions.SaltedSHA1PasswordStorageScheme
Allowed Values
A java class that implements or extends the class(es) :
org.opends.server.api.PasswordStorageScheme
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
Yes
Read-only
No


LDAP Mapping

Each configuration property can be mapped to a specific LDAP attribute under the "cn=config" entry. The mappings that follow are provided for information only. In general, you should avoid changing the server configuration by manipulating the LDAP attributes directly.

Base DN
cn=Password Storage Schemes,cn=config
objectclass name
ds-cfg-salted-sha1-password-storage-scheme
objectclass superior
ds-cfg-password-storage-scheme

Property
LDAP attribute
enabled
ds-cfg-enabled
java-class
ds-cfg-java-class