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select Plaintext as the hash method and enter a new password. We selected "secret" (see above). After pressing OK, a modify operation is sent to the server, which will be intercepted by our example class.
Afterwards, the value for userPassword is not "secret", but the MD5 digested value of it.
Kate Bush is still cabable of authenticating with the password "secret", because Apache Directory server supports storing passwords hashed with this algorithm.
Limitations of the example
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