Description of problem:

Directory server currently supports a number of password encryption types,
including SSHA, CRYPT, MD5, SHA256, etc.  Some older Unix versions (Irix, in my
case) support LDAP, but don't support anything other than CRYPT as the
encryption type.  However, Irix WILL support CRYPT with more secure hashes than
DES (for example, MD5).

We need a way to specify alternate hashes for CRYPT encryption type, preferably
with a user-selectable "md5crypt" type in the "Password encryption:" dialog
within the Fedora Management Console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Tested on FDS 1.0.4.

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create an LDAP user account using SSHA password encryption.
2. Try to log in on a properly configured Irix workstation using this account.
Note that it fails.
3. Change the password encryption to CRYPT.  The login will succeed.
4. Use a utility like phpLDAPAdmin to change the password encryption to
"md5crypt" (ie CRYPT with an md5 hash).  The login will still succeed.

Actual results:

See above.

Expected results:

N/A - request for enhancement.

Additional info:

Apparently Sun implemented this by adding an optional parameter passed to its
crypt password storage scheme plugin (see
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0376/6nc4cgnh4?a=view , topic 6557410).
While this would work with FDS, it would require hand-editing the dse.ldif
file,
which I'm sure would be a bad thing.  Hopefully it can be implemented poperly
with one or more new Password Storage Scheme dns.

OpenLDAP implemented this via a parameter, password-crypt-salt-format in
slapd.conf.