[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated - 6e4cc12604f6bcf53961326d497f118dfe5da139

[simo]

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 23:04 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 17:08 -0600, Günther Deschner wrote:
> > The branch, master has been updated
> >        via  6e4cc12604f6bcf53961326d497f118dfe5da139 (commit)
> >        via  91bfd5f201f302156fac7f1bc7a685e6f3c22cf3 (commit)
> >       from  e0711ffa526e22e3ffe483319ce5d7725d578647 (commit)
> > 
> > http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=master
> > 
> > 
> > - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > commit 6e4cc12604f6bcf53961326d497f118dfe5da139
> > Author: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer at yahoo.de>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 9 23:32:04 2008 +0100
> > 
> >     s4-samr: Fix Bug #5946. userparameters handling in torture test.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
> > 
> > commit 91bfd5f201f302156fac7f1bc7a685e6f3c22cf3
> > Author: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer at yahoo.de>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 9 23:31:15 2008 +0100
> > 
> >     s4-samr: Fix Bug #5946. userparameters handling in samr server.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
> 
> The OpenLDAP backend does not like zero-length strings, and I'm
> presuming it's your new tests. 

I think this is a very old controversial behavior of OpenLDAP, it would
be nice to know why it doesn't.

> I'm wondering if you have any ideas how we can correctly store these ""
> userParameters.  Should we instead not store the parameter?

In theory a zero length string is a perfectly valid value, although not
possible to express in an ldif, does AD allow to set a zero length
string ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <simo at redhat.com>