[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Support password change operation by direct manipulation of userPassword

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 22:17:06 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:13 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:20 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > This is an initial patch to support generating kerberos key material
> > (and other hashes) when an ldap ADD or MODIFY operation is performed on
> > the userPassword attribute.
> > 
> > Basic testing seem to work, but I'd like feedback both on the method
> > used and on the implementation. I have probably missed something as I
> > had to work on the patch at different times with large intervals between
> > each coding session, so please test it if you can before I push it to
> > master.
> 
> New patch, this incorporate suggestions to create helper functions for
> common code and also fixes quite a number of bugs, thanks to Rich for a
> quite accurate analysis too.

Another revision, this one removes the requirement to have an ssl
connection to just ldapadd/ldapmodify the userPassword attribute.
This would be a change in behavior for DS and may cause problems to
existing applications.

Simo.
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