password change does not work: LDAP, sssd, nss or pam error?

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Oct 9 17:58:10 UTC 2010


On 10/09/2010 05:23 AM, Craig White wrote:
> access to *
>          by anonymous auth
>          by self write
>          by * read

Just in case someone comes across this in the archives and doesn't read 
the entire thread:

NEVER ALLOW "access to * by self write".  NEVER!

If you allow DNs to write to their own attributes, your users can change 
their uidNumber to 0 and become root.


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