SSO fails - userPassword having special characters

Hi,
This is a tricky situation i'm handling. I did a insert of around 1000 users into Sun DS whose userPassword contained special characters accepted by DS. mainly + and ;.
For seeing if authentication will work, i just created a user through AM Console having userid and password both containing special characters. IT WORKED!! Hooray upto now.
Here comes the problem. The backend insert was done through creating an LDIF file with all user attributes and using ldapadd to insert them. From what i've read, userPassword gets encrypted using SSHA. Fine with me!! Now, when i login using one of the uid's i inserted through the LDIF file, it says Authentication Failed. Okey dokey! I went n changed the same user's (who was born from the LDIF file) password through AM Console and voila!! Now am able to login using the same uid which was not able to login before.
This is something very strange.. Can somebody throw some light on how I'm supposed to inserting user's password in the LDIF the same way AM Console seems to be doing it? You're help will be much appreciated.
My LDIF has the following attributes which concern uid and pwd
dn: uid=test\+,ou=People,o=test,dc=sample,dc=com
sn: test
givenname: guy
uid: test\+
uid: test+
userPassword: test+
I even tried with test\+ in the password. Still doesnt work!! HELP!!!

thanks for the replies.
iAMTheGuy,
I am using AM 7.1(which came along with Sun Portal server 7.1) installed in legacy mode.
Eric,
I use ldapmodify to add users. I noticed encryption happens automatically, so i dont know pwdhash is needed. I have to note one thing. The authentication works if I add the user from AMCONSOLE and that user has special characters. This is A OK..
All,
But i still have problems with adding user in LDIF file with special character in userPassword. I use only the ldapmodify -a command with the user attributes that are needed to insert a simple user.. stuff like cn,sn,givenname and the likes. I am able to add users & configure them for JDBC authentication to MySQL. This works fine.. LDIF users + JDBC authentication is great. But I might have to accomodate a scenario where LDAP authentication will be used in the near future. So, password havin special characters is needed considering the users in MySQL are allowed such passwords & may be migrated in the future .
Any workarounds? Or should i give up using passwords with special characters.
I had a suggestion, not sure if it'll work. Some1 please shed light on this. In case, I store the password with special characters in some other attribute, say title or some custom attribute not shown in AMCONSOLE, can i change LDAP authentication to use that attribute instead of userPassword? is userPassword the constant attribute for authentication?
Edited by: envious1 on Nov 12, 2007 2:35 AM

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