How to create encrypted password via command line

[Nigel Wade]

Anne Moore wrote:
> <<Has slapd.conf been configured to allow users write permission to their
> passwords?>>
> 
> Hmmm, well good question! I checked through the file but could not determine
> what should be enabled for that. Do you know what it would take to do enable
> user to have write permission to their passwords?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

The specifics are totally dependent on your slapd.conf ACLs. The order 
of the ACLs is highly significant and just inserting a new ACL can 
render later ACLs useless. Getting this one wrong can render your LDAP 
authentication scheme useless, or wide open for anyone to read your 
entire password database.

What you need is something *like* this, fairly high up in the ACL tree:

access to dn.subtree="dc=your root" attrs=userPassword
         by self write
         by dn="uid=<rootbinddn>,dc=your root" write
         by anonymous auth
         by * none


One way to test it is to try changing a users password using ldappasswd, 
binding as that user with their existing password. ldappasswd is part of 
the openldap-client package.

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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
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