Re: (ITS#5927) assertion error when using pcache

[ando@sys-net.it]

mhardin@symas.com wrote:
> Some additional information:
> 
> Some objects being returned from AD have very large multi-valued  
> attributes (for example, member). AD is returning them in the ";range"  
> format, but they are not getting past back-meta. For example, a direct  
> search for the object in AD will return stuff like this:
> 
> member;range=0-1499: CN=Alice Bar,OU=My-Company-Accounts,OU=User  
> Accounts,OU=Common,DC=my-company,DC=com
> 
> but doing the same search through slapd/back-meta using the same  
> credentials, the member attribute is not displayed at all. There are  
> no attribute maps in place that would cause this.

If this is the cause, then back-meta should try to register the 
attribute name as a "proxied" attribute type, and slapd should be unable 
to correctly decode it because it contains a "=".  Back-meta in the end 
should just ignore the whole attribute.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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