gessel@blackrosetech.com wrote:
Note: on editing slapd.conf, I see that prompt IO is directed to the file, not to the console. That is the file contains the prompts: "rootpw New password:" "Re-enter new password:"
Apparently FreeBSD doesn't provide a usable getpassphrase() in its libc, so a replacement in the OpenLDAP code is used instead. The OpenLDAP code is now fixed in HEAD.