OpenFire: SHA-1 passwords without blowfish encryption

Question

I want to be able to create users that have a straight up SHA-1 password. No Blowfish, nothing special, just plain old vanilla SHA-1. The only way I have been able to accomplish this so far has been to extend DefaultUserProvider and override the createUser, making the following change:

if (!usePlainPassword) {
    try {
        encryptedPassword = StringUtils.hash(password.getBytes(),"SHA-1");
        // encryptedPassword = AuthFactory.encryptPassword(password);
        // Set password to null so that it's inserted that way.
        password = null;
    } catch (UnsupportedOperationException uoe) {
        // Encrypting the password may have failed if in setup mode.
        // Therefore, use the plain password.
    }
}

Is there a better way to do this? Thoughts? Suggestions?

(The reason for this "requirement" is that I am trying to access ofUser table via mod_auth_mysql so that I can have a "single sign on" solution for all the different areas of my project such as Subversion.)

Answer 1

Turns out my initial solution (provided in the question) is the only way to accomplish this functionality. I have conversed with others on the openfire support forum and they concur.