For the life of me, I cannot seem to find this anywhere and if anyone can even just give me a link I would be very appreciative.
We are trying to turn on SSHA hashing in openLDAP. By default it stores passwords in plaintext, which I think is criminal but hey I am an AD guy so what do I know. But you would think that they would make it easy to find the information needed to turn on hashing if you so choose. And wouldn't you choose?
OpenLDAP supports a variety of storage schemes for the administrator to choose from. The tool you use to create accounts has to be configured to do the hashing. The server will store passwords in the format the client requests. If hashing is done properly, ldapsearch will show the hashed passwords like this:
userPassword: {SSHA}d0Q0626PSH9VUld7yWpR0k6BlpQmtczb
See http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/security.html for details.
When it comes to administrative tools I would personally recommend http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net