MF-MD5 Password Scheme & C program to generate salted MD5 encrypted password

Problem:

How can you generate a MF-MD5 encoded password, using a Java program, and insert a new USER in your LDAP?

Resolution:

The Micro Focus Enterprise Server's ESF feature can be used with the MLDAP External Security Module (mldap_esm) to provide LDAP-based security. That module provides various options for how user passwords are verified. One option is to let the module verify the password against a verifier stored in the user's record in the LDAP repository. In this case user account information is stored as microfocus-MFDS-User objects in the repository, and during a user sign-on request, a string computed using the supplied password will be compared against the value of the microfocus-MFDS-User-Pwd attribute of the microfocus-MFDS-User object for that user.

A demonstration attached to this article will use ADAM as the LDAP and create a SYSAD user having as a password SYSAD.

Incident Number: 2258226