François Beretti wrote:
Can you do the StartTLS extended operation first, before the bind request, then the password modify?Hi, I am implementing password policy in my LDAP-based software. When using Fedora DS I encountered several problems (or questions) : 1) when password expired, no request other than modifying its userPassword attribute is allowed. Two requests would have been usefull in my opinion :* Start TLS : I want to enable TLS just before changing my password, but :- Start TLS is not allowed, since it is not the only allowed modify request on userpassword
- After Start TLS (when the password is not expired), it seems
that the connection become sometimes anonymous, and needs a new bind.
I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate on this?
I thought only the Stop TLS operation must disable the authentication on the LDAP connection
Do you mean authentication or transport encryption?
* Password Modify Extended operation : I just thought it would be a good idea to use it to change a password, but it is not allowed
Even if you do this as the first operation, before the bind?
No. You should not send pre-hashed passwords, you should let the DS hash the passwords.2) when changing the password using a standard ldap modify request, if I send two modify operations in the same request, the first one to remove the old password and the second one to add the new password, do I need to hash the old password for it to be in the same format than in the directory ?
Hmm - that could be a bug in that we perhaps do not reset the password expiration time. It's supposed to - it goes through the same code as regular password modify.3) when using the Password Modify Extended operation, then at the next logon the server requires the user to change its password ! So I definitly can't use this operation on a server implementing password policy. I believe that in the Fedora DS password policy code this operation is only seen as an administration request, not intended to be done by a user : it is handled as a "force password" request, not a "change password" request.
4) I use the Novell LDAP client API. Any call to ldap_stop_tls_s blocks the calling thread. I don't know if it comes from the server, the client API, or both. It is not too bad since I can just call ldap_unbind and ldap_init instead. François -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
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