Re: (ITS#5897) trailing characters in olcserverids after conversion

[oliver@itc.li]

Howard Chu schrieb:
> oliver@itc.li wrote:
>> Full_Name: Oliver Liebel
>> Version: 2.4.13
>> OS: opensuse 11
>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> Submission from: (NULL) (80.144.97.81)
>>
>>
>> using openldap 2.4.13 (compiled from openldap.org source-package)
>> i have noticed the following, reproducable behaviour when converting
>> a slapd.conf to slapd.d:
>>
>> if slapd.conf contains serverids with ldap-urls, e.g. in this format:
>>
>> ServerID        1       "ldap://ldapmaster.local.site:9000";
>> ServerID        2       "ldap://ldapslave.local.site:9000";
>>
>> the olcserverids in cn=config.ldif always contains some trailing 
>> (garbage)
>> characters after the conversion, and are base64 encoded.  when i set 
>> them
>> manually in cn=config with ldapmodify, they are displayed "clean".
>>
>> the serverid-lines in slapd.conf are "clean" (they contain no 
>> whitespaces / tabs
>> at the end of the line or similar, invisible characters).
>>
>> i have tested it several times, without using \"\ in the string 
>> and/or without
>> portnumber. i have tested the conversion with both slaptest and slapd,
>> in virtual and real machines,
>> result was always the same.
>
> Thanks for the report, this is now fixed in HEAD. Note, URLs don't 
> need to be surrounded with quotes. By definition, they are already 
> "safe".
okay, understood. thanks for your response.

greetings
oliver