LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation

[Michael Ströder]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to gauge whether this should be the default under-the-hood 
>>> way of changing passwords from my own Zope-related products.
>>
>> Probably not.
> 
> Thanks Michael. Looks like for my code it's still more viable to 
> "hand-encode" passwords than to test for and utilize the extended 
> operation.

Probably yes.

LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation is mainly interesting if you're 
deploying SASL with an external password store and the 'user' name value is 
not a distinguished name.

Ciao, Michael.