Unfortunately, as of the time this was written FreeBSD did not support changing user passwords with <citerefentry><refentrytitle>passwd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. BecauseAs a result of this, most administrators are left to implement a solution themselves. I provide some examples here. Note that if you write your own password change script, there are some security issues you should be made aware of; see <xref linkend="security-passwd"/>
The LDAP server <link xlink:href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</link> will be used in the examples in this document; while the principles here should be generally applicable to many different servers, most of the concrete administration is <application>OpenLDAP</application>-specific. There are several server versions in ports, for example <package>net/openldap24-server</package>. Client servers will need the corresponding <package>net/openldap24-client</package> libraries.
O servidor LDAP <link xlink:href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</link> será usado nos exemplos deste documento; embora os princípios aqui devam ser geralmente aplicáveis a muitos servidores diferentes, a maior parte da administração concreta é especificamente para <application>OpenLDAP</application>. Existem várias versões de servidor nos ports, por exemplo <package>net/openldap24-server</package>. Os servidores clientes precisarão das bibliotecas <package>net/openldap24-client</package> correspondentes.