Re: strange behaviour of SetPassword

On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i just test PasswordPolicy and want to modify passwords with
>> Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword, but when i run this script,
>> $msg->gen_password() creats a random password and modifies
>> newpassword=> with the radom generated value instead of the defined
>> password. Is this a bug or is my script bogus. The docs say
>>
>> gen_password ( )
>>          Return the password generated in the previous  
>> "set_password()"
>>          call.
>>
>
> My guess is that the documentation is wrong.  The LDAP extended  
> operation used returns the server generated password.  In your use  
> of the operation, the server didn't generate a password, so the  
> generated password field should not be present in the server's  
> response.

That is, the documentation should say something like:
	Return the password generated by the server in response to the  
set_password() call when applicable.

-- Kurt