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On 07/15/13 22:28, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> I think something is lost on me here.  getpwent/getpwuid do
> not return the password hashes in the returned struct passwd
> unless the calling process is root.  So you have to be root in
> order to see the hashes anyway.  Not all users are going to
> have access to the hashes, unless your machine's compromised
> or otherwise allows root privileges to others.

My personal preference is to configure the LDAP server with this
fragment in slapd.conf ..

# lock down passwords
access to attrs=userPassword
        by self write
        by anonymous auth
        by * none

 .. which achieves everything needed without exposing anything
superfluously,

	imb