Re: Changing passwords in Active Directory

[Chris R. <chr...@ma...>]

On 11/12/02 6:49 pm, Eric Stokes <eri...@CS...> wrote:

> Ok, thanks for you help, the actual solution is rather strange.
> 
> This does not work
> $result = $ldaps -> modify($dn, replace => [unicodePwd => $pass]);
> 
> While this does work
> $result = $ldaps -> modify($dn, replace => {unicodePwd => $pass});
> 
> just a guess, we must be sending a ghost operation when [] are used,
> and that is killing the whole transaction. Anyway, thanks again.

I think I've seen that before - if you use [...] you get a replace with an
empty AttributeTypeAndValues SEQUENCE encoded and sent to the server. It
would be a bug if it did that, as that is not legal in LDAP's ASN.1.

I'll see if I can verify that and rustle a patch up, but I'm kind of busy
ATM.

Cheers,

Chris