Re: (ITS#4025) Ppolicy overlay: objectIdentifierMatch rule doesn't understand descriptions

[hyc@symas.com]

stran@amnh.org wrote:
> Full_Name: Samuel Tran
> Version: 2.3.7
> OS: Debian Linux Sarge
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (66.114.85.133)
>
>
> I am trying to implement the password policy overlay.
>
> When I try to create a dn that would hold the password policy, I get the
> following error:
>
> stran@educ236:~$ ldapmodify -vv -x -W -D
> "uid=stran,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" -H ldap://localhost -f
> passwd_cn.ldif 
> ldap_initialize( ldap://localhost )
> Enter LDAP Password: 
> replace cn:
>         password
> replace objectClass:
>         organizationalRole
>         pwdPolicy
> replace pwdattribute:
>         userpassword
> modifying entry "cn=password,ou=Policies,dc=example,dc=com"
> modify complete
> ldap_modify: Invalid syntax (21)
>         additional info: pwdattribute: value #0 invalid per syntax
>
>
>   
The ppolicy overlay code in HEAD has been patched to allow descriptions 
in addition to numeric OIDs.

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