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mhardin@symas.com wrote:

Some clients, like Oracle SGD, incorrectly implement the password polic=

y request

control by including a zero-length control value with the request contr=

ol.

OpenLDAP reports "passwordPolicyRequest control value not absent" and f=

ails the

operation with a Protocol Error (2). While this behavior follows the le=

tter of

RFC 4511, the control value in this case is zero-length and therefore h=

armless.

Failing in this case seems merely punctilious, and has no real benefit.=

For

reference, OpenLDAP 2.3 allowed a zero-length control value.

For the very same reason I've added a work-around in upcoming python-ldap=

2.4.11 to handle non-decodable control response values as being absent in= case CRITICAL flag is False. (Apache DS 2.0.0M7 also returns such an invalid zero-length value in password policy response control.)

I'd appreciate to discuss a bit further whether that's the right approach= =2E Maybe we should take this to ietf-ldapbis mailing list as interop issue?

Ciao, Michael.

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