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[Bruce Smith]

> Run slapd (the LDAP server) with the passwd backend!  Then your /etc/passwd file
> IS the contents of your DSA.  No migration required.  Each line in /etc/passwd
> is morphed into a posixAccount object, all real-time.

I haven't got it to work yet, but in the course of my research, 
I turned up the following disturbing message:

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200001/msg00189.html

It sounds like that will not work for me anyway.  The message says:

 "Note, however, the passwd backend is search only...
  it doesn't support authentication."


The message is a couple years old.  Do you know if that's still true?
Have you ever run a LDAP passwd backend?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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