Re: ppolicy control and change password exop (again)

On 26 May 2009, at 14:42, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> Hello list.
>
> Some time ago, I had an issue with set_password() not handling  
> controls:
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ldap/2008/09/msg2950.html
>
> It was fixed in perl-ldap 0.38.
>
> I also opened an ITS in openldap, because apparently password modify  
> exop was not returning ppolicy control correctly:
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200809/msg00178.html
>
> It was fixed in openldap 2.4.12
>
> However, it still doesn't work. The following test case shows than  
> the value returned by $response- 
> >control( LDAP_CONTROL_PASSWORDPOLICY ) is always '1', instead of an  
> instance of Net::LDAP::Control::PasswordPolicy class.

Can you give us BER dumps of the exop itself and the response?

> Before I reopen the ITS, I'd like to be sure my perl code is correct  
> first. In particular, is this normal to send a control object in the  
> request, and to get another distinct control object from the  
> response ?

Not sure what you mean by "distinct" but it is how the password policy  
draft is designed. Paged results is a little similar.

Cheers,

Chris