On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:35:15 +0200
Arthur de Jong <adej...@debian.org> wrote:

> An alternative solution would be to also return shadow information to
> non-root users but leave out the password hashes. This is what pynslcd
> in experimental currently does.
> 
> I *think* that is reasonable and don't see any security issues from
> exposing the other information from the shadow database.

I agree.  The other shadow information is not very sensitive and I
suspect that in many cases it could be accessed by directly querying the
LDAP server anyways.

> The ACLs are a nice idea but I don't see them happening really soon
> unless someone steps up for this.

That's understandable.  I don't think many people need that much
flexibility, so it's probably not a big deal.

-- Andrew


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