--On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:08 PM +0000 hyc(a)symas.com wrote:
>> It is a problem that a slappasswd user must have read privilage
>> on slapd.conf (or slapd.d) by this patch...
>
> slappasswd is an administrative command; if you don't have administrator
> access already you have no business running it.
What in any way makes it administrative? You simply give it a password to
convert into whatever scheme for you. Where is the administrative
requirement? Why shouldn't X user with some particular permissions into
the database, but not the configuration, be able to run it to generate a
value?
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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