Am 05.05.2011 19:14, schrieb Shelley Waltz:

I searched and did not find a suitable answer, so I am posting. Somehow I feel there is an answer, but it has eluded me.

I have RHEL5 with openldap with the ppolicy module. I wish to have a script or web cgi which I can have the users access to change their password and have them obey the ppolicy restrictions. I have not been able to find a suitable tool which will provide feedback regarding their selection requirements and errors. If there is one, please point me in the right direction.

regards Shelley

Hi,

the Perl module Net::LDAP does support slapo-ppolicy. You could probably cook something up with that.

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap/lib/Net/LDAP/Control/PasswordPolicy.... http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap/lib/Net/LDAP/Extension/SetPassword.p...

Regards, Christian Manal

Shelley Waltz wrote:

I searched and did not find a suitable answer, so I am posting. Somehow I feel there is an answer, but it has eluded me.

I have RHEL5 with openldap with the ppolicy module. I wish to have a script or web cgi which I can have the users access to change their password and have them obey the ppolicy restrictions. I have not been able to find a suitable tool which will provide feedback regarding their selection requirements and errors. If there is one, please point me in the right direction.

regards Shelley

If you take a look at the mailing list archive, you find this mail from Buchan Milne. Maybe it will solve your problem:

---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ----------

Betreff: Re: Invalid DN Syntax in Shell Script Datum: Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011 Von: Buchan Milne bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net An: Inácio Alves inacioc.alves@gmail.com

----- Original Message -----

Hi to all,

I'm trying write a script shell to simplifies the change of pass of users.

You may prefer to look for some existing scripts/tools. For example, I have: http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/ldap/ldap-passwd.pl

which can work as a shell command or as a CGI. I currently use it in conjunction with the script: http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/ldap/find-ldap-expired.pl

which notifies my users by email that their passwords will expire.

Run 'perldoc xxx.pl' to see the documentation for each script.

Then I write

function verificaSenha(){ whoAmI=`whoami` param=`echo "ldapsearch -x -W -D "uid=$whoAmI,ou=People,dc=ifce,dc=edu,dc=br" -b "dc=ifce,dc=edu,dc=br" "(uid=$whoAmI)""` exec `echo "$param"` }

the line param=... produces a command line that when I write directly in the term it works, however in the line exec "$param" I am solicitated my LDAP pass (like in directly term) but when I type I get

ldapsearch -x -W -D "uid=inacio,ou=People,dc=ifce,dc=edu,dc=br" -b "dc=ifce,dc=edu,dc=br" "(uid=inacio)" Enter LDAP Password: ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34) additional info: invalid DN

You should probably compare the logs on the LDAP server for the two binds, and see if they differ. I suspect a difference introduced by shell quoting. I wouldn't use exec, but rather just call ldapsearch directly.

But, then, shell quoting, handling of spaces etc. are reasons to avoid shell scripting for serious LDAP work.

Regards, Buchan

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