Fedora directory users - Apr 2006 - Admin password stored in plain text

I installed Fedora-DS recently and I''ve been fairly pleased with it. 
There is just one thing that I''ve noticed that I really dislike - the 
password for the admin user that is created during setup is stored in 
plain text in /opt/fedora-ds/admin-serv/config/adm.conf.

A friend who uses Sun''s DS has the same issue, but says it
doesn''t
bother him because "it''s not entirely obvious that it''s a
password",
which I think is rather lame.

Is it likely that this will get changed in the near future so that it is 
for example stored in an encrypted format?

Jess

womble wrote:
> I installed Fedora-DS recently and I''ve been fairly pleased with
it.
> There is just one thing that I''ve noticed that I really dislike -
the
> password for the admin user that is created during setup is stored in 
> plain text in /opt/fedora-ds/admin-serv/config/adm.conf.
>
> A friend who uses Sun''s DS has the same issue, but says it
doesn''t
> bother him because "it''s not entirely obvious that
it''s a password",
> which I think is rather lame.
>
> Is it likely that this will get changed in the near future so that it 
> is for example stored in an encrypted format?
The problem is that for the moment, the admin server needs the clear 
text password in order to bind to the directory server.  We have filed 
this bug about the problem - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161099
>
> Jess
>
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