OpenLDAP Password Encryption

[Myles Merrell <mmerrell@cleverex.com>]

I'm working on our LDAP server, we want to be sure to encrypt the 
password.  We also want to be able to decrypt the passwords if a user 
loses their passwords, and we need to send it to them.

I've done a lot of research on encrypting the passwords, but none of the 
methods I have seen allow you to easily decrypt the password using a 
private key or something like that.

Is this possible, if so how?

thanks.
myles.