Sun Directory Server attribute userPassword and SSHA

Question

I am trying to write my own java code to validate an input plain text password against the corresponding encoded value as it appears on the Sun One directory server attribute 'userPassword'.
For example the userPassword attribute value might look like this:
{SSHA}...some-ssha-encoded-jibberish...
Now what does the java code snippet look like that take as input a
plain-text password String and encodes it to see if it matches the
Sun One encoded attribute value??

Answer 1

I know that doing an LDAP bind will accomplish the 'logical' equivlant of what I am after but for my application purposes I need to be able to validate the password string with my own code. In fact my problem goes beyond just the {SSHA} style hash I also need to be able to validate the {crypt} style has as well. I have solved the {SHA} style hash validation but the other two hashes are problematic thus far.