On 24-Oct-2007, at 16:21, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Why, in the year 2007, is it still not possible to just friggin' type "passwd" and have it update your LDAP server?
An entirely reasonable question. The answer I was given on one occasion I brought it up was that LDAP was designed for read-only access and read-write is cobbled on the side, often implemented in a completely insane manner, and writing is often either all-or-none, insecure, or both.
