[Lias] Re: [OpenLDAP] - Some success

[Ken Yap]

>After a lot of fiddling abd editing of files ....................
>I can now ssh etc as one of the ldap users (provided they are a posix user wi
>th a
>shell!)
>
>It seems amazing the number of places you have to put the rootdn password in 
>cleartext!

How many places? In the slapd.conf file you can SSHA it. You don't need
the rootpw to do a DN bind, you can use the user's account or create an
account that's allowed to bind.