[python-ldap] Error with expiring accounts

Polkosnik, Adam adam.polkosnik at ny.frb.org
Wed Mar 12 18:34:40 CET 2014


I did have pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules imported, as well as ldap.controls.ppolicy, but still this is what it throws for accounts with a password expiration warning. 
To me, it looks like that the OIDs from pwdpolicy.py are not making it into KNOWN_RESPONSE_CONTROLS.

>>> l.simple_bind_s( username, password)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 208, in simple_bind_s
    resp_type, resp_data, resp_msgid, resp_ctrls = self.result3(msgid,all=1,timeout=self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 469, in result3
    resp_ctrl_classes=resp_ctrl_classes
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 487, in result4
    decoded_resp_ctrls = DecodeControlTuples(resp_ctrls,resp_ctrl_classes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/controls/__init__.py", line 143, in DecodeControlTuples
    raise ldap.UNAVAILABLE_CRITICAL_EXTENSION('Received unexpected critical response control with controlType %s' % (repr(controlType)))
ldap.UNAVAILABLE_CRITICAL_EXTENSION: Received unexpected critical response control with controlType '2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.5'



To me, it looks like that the classes/OIDs from pwdpolicy.py are not making it into KNOWN_RESPONSE_CONTROLS.

>>> from  ldap.controls import KNOWN_RESPONSE_CONTROLS
>>> print KNOWN_RESPONSE_CONTROLS
{'1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.5.12': <class ldap.controls.simple.RelaxRulesControl at 0x7f79539f9668>, '1.3.6.1.1.12': <class ldap.controls.libldap.AssertionControl at 0x7f79539f9870>, '2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.2': <class ldap.controls.simple.ManageDSAITControl at 0x7f79539f9600>, '1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.27.8.5.1': <class ldap.controls.ppolicy.PasswordPolicyControl at 0x7f794733aa10>, '1.2.840.113556.1.4.319': <class ldap.controls.libldap.SimplePagedResultsControl at 0x7f79539f9940>, '1.2.826.0.1.3344810.2.3': <class ldap.controls.libldap.MatchedValuesControl at 0x7f79539f98d8>, '2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.15': <class ldap.controls.simple.AuthorizationIdentityResponseControl at 0x7f79539f97a0>}



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ströder [mailto:michael at stroeder.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:23 PM
To: Polkosnik, Adam; python-ldap at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-ldap] Error with expiring accounts

Polkosnik, Adam wrote:
> I've not seen any mucking of any of those things, it goes something like this:
> 
>                import ldap, ldapurl
>                 try:
>                      ...
>                     l = ldap.initialize('ldap://myldapserver:1390')
>                     l.protocol_version = 3
>                     l.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS,0)
>                     l.set_option(ldap.OPT_TIMEOUT, app_timeout)
>                     ...
>                     logger.info("Logging in username: %s" % usern)
>                     l.simple_bind_s(usern, userp)
>                     ...
>                     return usern
>                 except ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
>                     logger.info("Invalid credentials: %s" % usern)
>                 except Exception, err:
>                     logger.info("LDAP Auth error: %s" % err)

You have to import ldap.controls.ppolicy and you need pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules to be installed for that to work.

Ciao, Michael.

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