Openldap and PAM_LDAP

[Marc Schöchlin <schoechlin@linetics.de>]

Hi !

I have installed the following components :

openldap-servers-2.0.7-14
openldap-2.0.7-14
openldap-clients-2.0.7-14
openldap-devel-2.0.7-14
nss_ldap-149-1

I have some questions about passwd and pam_ldap:

Why are passwords changed by "passwd" stored as plaintext-passwords
in the ldap-database ?

How can I change this to encyrpted style ?

How can I change passwords of users without knowing the old passwords 
from the shell ?

Regards

Marc Schöchlin