failed to decode child control: failed to decode data bytes: unexpected EOF

[guangxuewu]

with ldapwhoami i get ”Password must be changed“
$ ldapwhoami -x -D "cn=shilei1,cn=ops,ou=IT,dc=yzh,dc=com" -w shilei -h localhost -p 589 -e ppolicy -v
ldap_initialize( ldap://localhost:589 )
ldap_bind: Success (0); Password must be changed (Password expires in 0 seconds)
dn:cn=shilei1,cn=Ops,ou=IT,dc=yzh,dc=com
Result: Success (0)
but with
controls := []ldap.Control{}
controls = append(controls, ldap.NewControlBeheraPasswordPolicy())
bindRequest := ldap.NewSimpleBindRequest("cn=shilei1,cn=Ops,ou=IT,dc=yzh,dc=com", "shilei", controls)
r, err := l.SimpleBind(bindRequest)
err get ：failed to decode child control: failed to decode data bytes: unexpected EOF

[johnweldon]

To be explicit; this report is that when the server requires a password change, binding with a simple bind request and a ldap.NewControlBeheraPasswordPolicy() generated control, there is an error about decoding data rather than the expected error about needing to change the password.

I haven't investigated the reason for this but it took me a few minutes of reading to decode this bug report, so I wanted to add my perspective for someone else to solve.