On 4/15/20 6:44 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:40 PM +0200 Clément OUDOT
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have done some tests today, I did not find a solution.
>>
>> I tried to give the "manage" right to a service account, and then use the
>> relax or ManageDSAIT controls to force the change of a password which is
>> too short, it is always rejected. The modification is only accepted if it
>> is done by rootdn.
> 
> Correct, this is a deficiency in the current implementation.  Ties in
> somewhat to <https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9211>

In general I agree that there are real deficiencies regarding access
control for extended controls and extended operations.

But I disagree to call it a deficiency that it's not possible to violate
minimum password length constraint with a relax control or similar. This
has to be carefully considered and decided for each possible use-case.

Ciao, Michael.

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