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thanks, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter Kluenter" <die...@dkluenter.de> To: perl-ldap@perl.org Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:09:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: strange behaviour of SetPassword Kurt Zeilenga <kurt.zeile...@isode.com> 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 -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/2104.html sip: +49.180.1555.7770535 GPG Key ID:8EF7B6C6 53°08'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E
