RE: (attribute=) as search filter woes (ITS#2754)

[hyc@highlandsun.com]

This bug was reported in ITS#2453 and fixed in release 2.1.18. The current
release is 2.1.22, you need to update your code.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of
> Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de

> Full_Name: Pascal Gienger
> Version: 2.1.12
> OS: Linux 2.4.20 / Suse 8.2
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (134.34.1.194)
>
>
> As I am using postfix with canonical rewrite tables, there is
> the problem that
> it tries to search for an empty username, resulting in a RFC
> search filter like
> this:
>
> (uid=)
>
> Indices are set like this:
>
> uid: pres,eq,sub
>
>
> Problem: The search times out (the Server needs a long time
> to return 0 data
> sets).
> In the logfile, a query (?=undefined) appears.
> Why does the server needs so long time to reject the query?
>
> Pascal
>