[Kolab-devel] Cyrus ptloader and canonification ( '.' and '^' divider in addresses )

[Daniel Hoffend]

Sounds like a mixup between the external and internal userid. The (wrong)!one with ^ is the Cyrus internal notation while the correct one would the external.

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Daniel Hoffend

> Am 11.02.2015 um 20:02 schrieb Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de>:
> 
> Hi guys!
> 
> Yesterday I've tried again to hunt down my mysterious crashes in
> ptloader. Therefore I've forked the cyrus package on OBS and added a lot
> of debug output to ptclient/ldap.c. In particular to ptsmodule_get_dn()
> because that is where the crash occurs.
> 
> I'm still not sure what causes the crash, but found something else I
> can't really explain. So I'm hoping someone here could point me in the
> right direction.
> 
> It looks like ptsmodule_get_dn() tries to find the DN for a given user
> (or email address, or alias, etc.)
> 
> Usually the generated LDAP filter looks like this:
> (|(&(|(uid=cyrus-admin)(uid=cyrus-murder))(uid=peter.weber))(&(|(uid=peter.weber)(mail=peter.weber at example.com)(mail=peter.weber@))(objectclass=kolabinetorgperson)))
> 
> And returns a DN like that:
> uid=weber,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> 
> So far so good. But sometimes I see queries for the same user but with
> '^' instead of '.' as divider between first name and last name.
> 
> Like this:
> (|(&(|(uid=cyrus-admin)(uid=cyrus-murder))(uid=peter^weber))(&(|(uid=peter^weber)(mail=peter^weber at example.com)(mail=peter^weber@))(objectclass=kolabinetorgperson)))
> 
> Those queries do not return a valid DN but PTSM_FAIL.
> 
> So my question is: Why are the requests sometimes in one format and
> sometimes in a different format. And is that intentional.
> 
> Thanks!
> Conny
> 
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