[PATCHES] Fix userParameters once and for all

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Jun 29 13:29:56 MDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 14:49 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Am 19.06.2014 07:13, schrieb abartlet at samba.org:
> > This patch series tries to fix the userParameters issue once and for all
> > rather than just papering over it by increasing the malloc buffer.
> > 
> > This ensures that Samba stores the userParameters array in the same
> > way the windows client uses it, as a 'UTF-16-LE' buffer (sort of, the
> > data is not actually unicode).  
> > 
> > The only thing not done in this patch set is to have our LDAP server
> > convert on output, but Microsoft assures us that this can not be
> > relied on anyway, as the data is not UTF8 nor can it be transformed to
> > UTF8 with certainty.
> > 
> > Please review and push.
> 
> I'll have a look at it next week...

Any thoughts?

Andrew Bartlett

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