[Samba] bug in ldbtools?

simo idra at samba.org
Sun Oct 5 12:39:26 MDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 13:35 -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 02:54 AM, Harry Jede wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > if one by accident points the ldbsearch command to any file, which is
> > not a ldb file, this file is silently converted to a tdb file ;-) .
> >
> >
> > root at dc0:~# file /tmp/t2.ldif
> > /tmp/t2.ldif: ASCII text
> >
> > root at dc0:~# ldbsearch -H /tmp/t2.ldif
> > # returned 0 records
> > # 0 entries
> > # 0 referrals
> >
> > root at dc0:~# file /tmp/t2.ldif
> > /tmp/t2.ldif: TDB database version 6, little-endian hash size 10000
> > bytes
> >
> >
> > This behaviour my be OK for ldbadd/ldbmodify. But for a search command?
> >
> > Samba version is:
> > Version 4.1.11-Debian
> >
> -H option indicates the path to an LDB file, if not existing the LDB 
> tools will create it.
> 
> We could improve the situation not to create the file if missing, I'll 
> defer it to Simo.

Sounds like a bug to be fixed, perhaps even in the tdb tools.

Harry, can you please open a bug in bugzilla for this ?

Simo.




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