[PATCH] Bug #45477: changing passwords on MS Active Directory/Novell Directory Server (LDAP)

Hi, As explained in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45477 it's not possible to change the userPassword attribute using PHP on NDS/AD because these LDAP servers require to perform the deleteAttribute and addAttribute operations in the same LDAP request. Currently working at Hachette-Livre (Paris, France), we're experiencing this bug and the developer who wrote the app I'm working on was forced to use a BIG hack to perform an password changing request : he calls a Java app who does the LDAP request by using a system(). Admit it, it's ugly. So i've made a patch which fixes the bug. It creates a ldap_mod_deleteadd function which delete an attribute and adding it in the same LDAP request. Some parts of the code is imported from pam_ldap. The syntax is pretty obvious (but not very clean asap, i wanted to know if you like my function before making it as pretty as ldap_mod_replace) : ldap_mod_deleteadd(resource link, string dn, string attr, string old, string new[, boolean binary = false]) The boolean binary attribute is here for AD which uses an unicode encoded password (and so needs LDAP_MOD_BVALUES). Currently waiting for your insults :) Alexis ROBERT alexis.robert@gmail.com