Refactor of Binary DN code
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Nov 6 19:38:33 MST 2009
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:44 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 18:02 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >> I wanted to bring your attention to my GIT branch dsdb-dn
> >> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dsdb-dn
> >>
> >> This creates a new struct dsdb_dn and associated functions, taking over
> >> from ldb_dn for the DN+Binary and DN+String code.
> >>
> >> I feel this is a cleaner separation than we had previously, and should
> >> fix some reported issues with the OpenLDAP backend. (We need to be able
> >> to deal with the linear form of these DNs as a whole, and as the
> >> 'normal' part differently in different portions of the code).
> >>
> >> It also adds functions to allow these DNs to be searched for correctly,
> >> as the DN is now able to be casefolded independently of the binary or
> >> string prefix.
> >>
> >> The next step is to write specific tests for this new code, and to
> >> validate that I've not broken 'net vampire' and replication (for which
> >> this code was added in the first place).
> >
> > I've pushed an updated set of changes to my branch.
> >
> > The problem I have, aside from a small segfault mdw will patch shortly
> > in his ValidatePassword code, is that dcpromo on a new second Windows
> > 2008 DC fails with:
> >
> > "The replication system has encountered an internal error"
> >
> > while replicating cn=configuration
>
> Does it work without your changes?
No, but for a different reason. Without my changes it loops at 1606 of
1625 changes in cn=configuration (which is also the same as the last
time I tested replication).
So, how do I debug what it doesn't like about my patch?
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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