Re: Potential bug (schema or ldap add?)

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> Modifying the schema definition of an attribute which exists in your
> directory is definitely a bad idea.  I didn't know that you can crash
> slapd by merely adding an EQUALITY rule, but it doesn't surprise me
> either.  The safe way is to slapcat the database before the schema
> change and slapadd it back afterwards.

If an EQUALITY rule is added to an attribute that is already present in 
the database, slapd assumes it knows how to normalize its values and, in 
some places it may expect that the normalized values be already present 
in the database.  Maybe this crash needs to be investigated as soon as 
the possibility to modify the schema run-time is released.

p.



Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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