Re: Extension to back-passwd: back-posix

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 	userPassword:	Set from pw_passwd [3]
>
> [3]	Probably useless in a shadowed environment.
If you don't implement ACL calls, then you should probably just omit 
this attribute. If you do implement ACLs, then it may be OK to expose 
it. The Symas module implements shadow support, as well as AIX tcb, and 
Secureware (SCO, HPUX) mechanisms.

Again, you have to answer one key question first - are you trying to 
build a backend that supports authentication services, or are you just 
trying to expose whitepages information? The latter isn't 
extraordinarily useful, and the former can be extraordinarily dangerous 
if you get something wrong.
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