User Import from LDAP Database Getting Incorrect Username/Password

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Problem statement

I am doing migration tests from an LDAP database to Auth0 and after I import users I try to test the account in my database it gives me the error that the password is incorrect. Here is an example of a test user profile:

{
  "family_name": "John",
  "given_name": "Doe",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email_verified": true,
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "custom_password_hash": {
    "algorithm": "ldap",
    "hash": {
      "encoding":"utf8",
      "value": "{SSHA512}fTX2qFJr2HonObKe3Upycji16KHQCx9E1AC3rkhKN6pXC7F29dWU2x3Z9OALxrzqWEfB+R229k5boY5cKjt9YDTnP4uIzLaQ"
    }
  }
}

Solution

The following script outputs the correct SHA512 password hash. You can use it to test the passwords and debug:

const crypto = require('crypto')

const password = '12345'
const digestMethod = 'sha512'

const run = async () => {
  const rawHash = crypto.createHash(digestMethod)
    .update(Buffer.from(password))
    .digest()
  const hash = rawHash.toString('base64') 
  console.log(`{SHA512}${hash}`)
}

run()

Result:

“{SHA512}NieQminDE4Ggcewn98nKl3Jhgq7Smn3dLlQ1MyLPswq7njpt8qwsIP4jQ2MR1nhWTQyNMFkwV19g4tPQSBhNeQ==”

If you have the salt, this is the updated script to obtain an SSHA hash:

const crypto = require('crypto')

const password = '12345'
const salt = 'keyboardcat'
const digestMethod = 'sha512'

const run = async () => {
  const saltBuf = Buffer.from(salt)
  const rawHash = crypto.createHash(digestMethod)
    .update(Buffer.from(password))
    .update(saltBuf)
    .digest()
  const hash = Buffer.concat([rawHash, saltBuf]).toString('base64')
  console.log(`{SSHA512}${hash}`)
}

run()

Result:

“{SSHA512}/QjFCr4JlH6s9UZ7ptgtbdhBVDq2hv9bcS5yxbckt4XHcd8q2Fbi8EN/fOXRDgT9EtWt91RfGoz/2uxUe/ZEKGtleWJvYXJkY2F0”