[email protected] wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Full_Name: Michael Ströder
>> Version: HEAD
>> OS:
>> URL:
>> Submission from: (NULL) (84.163.50.194)
>>
>> I'd like to request that a Password Modify ext. op. request should succeed 
>> on a
>> LDAP connection as anonymous if the LDAP client provides the correct old
>> password.
>>
>> E.g. OpenDS implements it like this and it makes sense to me regarding a user
>> setting a new password in case of an expired password.
> 
> Adding this feature would open up the pwdModify exop as a mechanism for 
> password guessing attacks.

There could be still the bad password counter in effect just like when
processing bind requests.

Ciao, Michael.


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