Bug in LDB's handling of escaped characters in DNs

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Simo,

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:40:50PM -0500, simo wrote about 'Re: Bug in LDB's handling of escaped characters in DNs':
> On ven, 2006-01-06 at 10:23 -0500, simo wrote:
> > On mer, 2006-01-04 at 00:58 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > ./bin/ldbadd -H foo.ldb <<EOF
> > > dn: foo=bar\;,blah=blie
> > > foo: bar;
> > > EOF
> > > Error: Unable to parse dn 'foo=bar\;,blah=blie'
> > > Added 0 records with 0 failures
> > Hi Jelmer, it's a bug.
> > Escaping in LDAP allows only hexadecimal values after '\' exctept for
> > some special values ( and ; is one of them ).
> > RFC 2253 has the details.
> Should be fixed now.
> It was a bug in the function that split up a DN into it's RDNs.
Many thanks for the fix! This hopefully fixes upgrading for people who 
have special characters in their fullname fields when upgrading from
Samba3.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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