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Re: (ITS#4978) slapo-ppolicy.5 and missing Zero value example



ahasenack@terra.com.br wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:23PM +0000, ghenry@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
>> draft-behera-ldap-password-policy-xx.txt and ppolicy.schema list:
>>
>> "A 000001010000Z value means that the account has been locked permanently, and
>> that only a password administrator can unlock the account."
>>
>> But pwdAccountLockedTime doesn't use integerMatch, so an example of the above
>> syntax is needed with anything that has a generalizedTimeMatch. I think
>> pwdAccountLockedTime is the only one?
> 
> The slapo-ppolicy(5) manpage is actually misleading. It implies that
> the value is a plain zero, which doesn't work:
> "If pwdAccountLockedTime is set to zero (0), the user's account (...)"

That text in the manpage came from an earlier revision of the ppolicy 
draft; it just wasn't updated when the meaning was clarified in a later 
draft version. Looks like Gavin has fixed it in HEAD now.

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