It's a good thing he obfuscated his password then... :)

Careful you'll incite a riot about LDAP being insecure!  If anyone is worried, 
implement
LDAP over SSL.

Patrick Spinler wrote:
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Dave Keeton wrote:
/etc/ldap.conf:

host    <ip address>
port    9270
base    c=odot
binddn  racfid=BNDUSR,profiletype=USER,c=DOT    
bindpw  <clear text password>
ldap_version    3
pam_login_attribute     racfid


A little off topic, but doesn't /etc/ldap.conf needs to be world
readable (to allow ldap enabled tools to work in user space)?

If so, isn't having a password in this file a nasty security hole?

Thanks,
- -- Pat
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