Re: ldap_bind() extended response for password policy

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Andrius Kulbis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to pull the password policy response message from ldap_bind()
> method.
>
> While checking the packet content from OpenLDAP after ldap_bind()
> request, with Wireshark, there is a control hooked to the ldap_bind()
> response, were the message code and message text about password
> expiration is, but I can't manage to parse that message from response.
>
> AFAIK, the OpenLDAP C API ldap_get_option() method doesn't have
> LDAP_OPT_SERVER_CONTRLOLS case implementation, and I can't get the
> PASSWORDPOLICYRESPONSE, although I have set the PASSWORDPOLICYREQUEST
> before the bind.

Use ldap_parse_result().

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