some how I am on your email list, please remove me.
thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Kluenter" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:09:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of SetPassword
Kurt Zeilenga <[email protected]> writes:
> 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,
thank you. After re-reading RFC-3062 in particular section 3 I
understood gen_password. It just returnes a server generated random
password in absence of newpassword.
-Dieter
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