No userPassword found in Attributes?

Question

Hello!
I have queried an LDAP server to fetch the password, but the output below does not contain the userPassword attribute, how can I get the password, I need to retreive the password and store it locally.
Thanks
/Ray
DirContext ctx =attemptBind(dn, userPassword, host, port);
Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes( dn );
System.out.println( "[XXXX] Attributes " + attrs.toString() );Output:
[XXXX] Attributes {trustedlogin=trustedlogin: TRUE, sn=sn: John Doe, vipaccess=vipaccess: TRUE, initpassword=initpassword: FALSE, language=language: English, mail=mail: [email protected], objectclass=objectclass: inetOrgPerson, top, person, ePerson, vip, vipUser, organizationalPerson, uid=uid: jdoe, cn=cn: jdoe, vipwebsite=vipwebsite: financial, passwordexpiretime=passwordexpiretime: 20011222050123}
How do I get the userPassword in the above output?

Answer 1

Check to see if the Directory Server supports reading the user password.
Most directory servers do not allow it at all or have some sort of a configurable mechanism to do it.
One should (and some directory servers do) use one-way encryption to encrypt the passwords and never return the passwords. This is a very good practice.\
Hope this helps
Vijay