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title: User Password
description: Values of this syntax hold user passwords in encoded form.
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# User Password

Values of this syntax hold user passwords in encoded form.

A value is formatted as `{scheme}encoded-value`, where the *scheme* is the password storage scheme, and *encoded-value* is the value encoded or hashed according to the storage scheme.

Cleartext passwords are octet strings.

|               |                         |
| ------------- | ----------------------- |
| *OID*         | 1.3.6.1.4.1.26027.1.3.1 |
| *Description* | User Password           |
| *Origin*      | OpenDS Directory Server |