On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:57:10 +0200 (CEST) Christian Kratzer ck-lists@cksoft.de wrote
We have a customer setup where the corporate identity management applications provisions users to the directory, resets their passwords etc...
The tool binds as a specific user and we permit write access to appropriate subtress via an acl.
The customer also uses password policy to enforce policy in ldap.
The problem we have is that the idm tool is obivously also subject to the pwdMinAge and pwdSafeModify policies. The tool never stores a users password so when pwdSafeModify is in effect it cannot provide the old password to satisfy the policy. It obviously also cannot reset the password until pwdMinAge has elapsed.
Giving the rootDN credentials to the tool is also not an option as we would like to keep audit logs clean and have the acl in place to stop the tool from writing all over the place.
So we would like to override password policy for the idm tools bind user similarly as the rootDN is already able to bypass policy.
If it's not already implemented I'd recommend this feature request: 1. limit such a write operation to a user which has 'manage' access to the attributes and 2. enable overriding only if the client sends Relax Rules Control along with the LDAP write request.
Ciao, Michael.