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Re: ldappasswd doesn't have protocol selection



At 10:37 AM 2/22/01 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>I'm running 2.0.7 clients against a 1.2.11 server (don't ask why, please
>just accept it).  I've gotten quite comfortable adding -x -P 2 for
>everything, and all is well.  However, it turns out that ldappasswd doesn't
>have the -P option, which makes it effectively unable to work in my
>environment.
>
>Is there any particular reason why ldappasswd is unable to use v2 if
>everything else is quite able to? 

OpenLDAP 2.0's ldappasswd(1) makes use of a LDAPv3 extended
operation to change the password [RFC3062].

>Was this an oversight in the creation of the program?

No.