Re: entry modify failed while trying to change user password

["Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it>]

> Hello, I am having some problems with users being able to change their
> own passwords on the LDAP server. The result comes back with
> "implementation specific error 80" so I assume this means I setup
> something incorrectly, but I don't know what. Below is the error, below
> that is the security section of my slapd.conf file.
>
> ldappasswd -xSWD "uid=kris,ou=people,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=com"
> New password:
> Re-enter new password:
> Enter LDAP Password:
> Result: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
> Additional info: entry modify failed

"80" means that something so weird happened that there's no standard code
to indicate it.  As such, it might be useful to see what's going on on the
server side, starting from: version, slapd.conf and logs when the problem
occurs.

>
> --
> <slapd.conf security section>
>
> access to *
>         by * read
> access to attrs=userPassword
>         by self write
>         by * auth

This looks correct.

p.

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