title: How can I retrieve a salt from LDAP?
body: <p>The organization that I work for uses PPolicy (an OpenLDAP module) to automatically salt and hash passwords. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the machine running the OpenLDAP server, so i can't look at the config file. From what I've seen though, pretty much everything appears to be setup using the default settings.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to be able to retrieve the salt for a specific user. If I look at the user's attributes, userPassword is the SSHA password. I don't see anything about a salt for that specific user. I ended up looking at the LDAP schema and I see nothing about salts there either.</p>
  
  <p>If you were to guess where the salt were being stored for each user, where would it be? I understand this is vague and probably not a lot of information, but I can't find anywhere in the OpenLDAP docs that explain where exactly the unique salts are stored. Perhaps someone who has configured an OpenLDAP server before would know where the default location is.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>