To anyone having trouble with the /system/local authentication.conf files not hashing their values:
try removing the files on each SH member, doing a rolling restart or app push from your deployer
re-create those same files on each search head. Should only take a minute or so, only having the stanza title and bindDN password in plaintext
re-push the app or do a rolling cluster restart, and this should re-hash the values.
I ran into this issue when i updated the password on the local auth.conf files after creation. I think they only do the hashing upon the first time the file is found...
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