[389-users] (Insufficient 'write' privileges to the 'userPassword') when executing passwd change

[Beamon, John]

As mentioned, I zeroed out the access log, executed one operation, and saw nothing but srch and result and bind operations in the access log.  I don’t find a modify or a write warning, and the error log is empty.

 

 

From: Rich Megginson [mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:44 PM
To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
Cc: Beamon, John
Subject: Re: [389-users] (Insufficient 'write' privileges to the 'userPassword') when executing passwd change

 

On 02/18/2011 11:18 AM, Beamon, John wrote: 

This is a new install, straight from the docs with 4 boxes in an MMR setup.  Attempting a password change from a Linux command line, I get this feedback.
 

	 

$ passwd
Changing password for user jbeamon.
Enter login(LDAP) password:
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
LDAP password information update failed: Insufficient access
Insufficient 'write' privilege to the 'userPassword' attribute of entry 'uid=jbeamon,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com'.
 
passwd: Permission denied

	 

 
I zeroed out the access and error logs in advance.  The error log was empty; the access log was nothing but SRCH, BIND, and RESULT entries for my account.  Nothing about access problems or attempted modifies.
 
A web search for this error message revealed one conversation in Jan 2009 that ended with "I fixed my aci and the problem went away".  I haven't knowingly changed any acis since install.  At the global level, user may change password.  At the userRoot suffix level, user can change password and fine-grained policy is enabled.  A password reset by directory manager succeeds and replicates around.  Does anyone else recognize this?

Look for this sequence of operations in your directory server access log.



 
-j
 
 
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