Read password into IDM from AD

Hello Experts,

Password hook is not available for IDM 8.0 yet and I got to know few months back that its not reliable and has security implications.

So if not for password hook, how to read password from AD into IDM? Initial load doesnt bring in the password. We get NULL value for Ad attribute userPassword when using the standard initial load job.

How have you covered this scenario?

Kind regards,

Jai