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Re: Security issue : userPassword is shown



Paul Lee <paul@hk.fujitsu.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I use a 3rd party LDAP browser to browse the users that I created.  I
> can see the userPassword clearly (plain text).
>
> Is there any way to avoid this ?
>
> When I use slapcat command to export to LDIF file, the userPassword
> field is encrypted, but why using 3rd party browser will show the
> password in plain text ?

The userPasswsord value is not encrypted but only base64 encoded. In
order to hide the value set appropriate access rules. See man
slapd.access(5), section privilege access model, hint: disallow read
access, but only allow write and auth access.

-Dieter

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