improve previous commit (ITS#5614)

[openldap] / doc / man / man5 / slapd-passwd.5

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-passwd.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-passwd.5
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--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-passwd.5
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH SLAPD-PASSWD 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
 .SH NAME
@@ -29,6 +29,20 @@ manual page.
 Specifies an alternate passwd file to use.
 The default is
 .BR /etc/passwd .
+.SH ACCESS CONTROL
+The
+.B passwd
+backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in
+.BR slapd.access (5).
+Only
+.B read (=r)
+access to the
+.B entry
+pseudo-attribute and to the other attribute values of the entries
+returned by the
+.B search
+operation is honored, which is performed by the frontend.
+
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf