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Re: (ITS#7278) [PATCH] SHA-2: Add support salted SHA-2 password hashes

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:08 PM +0000 hyc@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?

slap*(8) are all administrative tools, by definition. You should already know 
that.

Why should X user ever need to run this tool to generate a value? slapd 
generates users' password values automatically. The only time anyone ever 
*needs* this tool is for setting a rootpw in the slapd config. That's the only 
reason this tool exists and it is the only valid use case.

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