[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use escapes in DNs instead of quoting.

[Pavel Zuna]

On 03/26/2010 04:56 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Pavel Zuna wrote:
>> This patch effectively removes all LDAPv2 style quoted DNs and makes
>> sure we don't use them anymore.
>>
>> KDC doesn't seem to have any problems with LDAPv3 style DNs, but I
>> kept the option to disable DN normalization for now.
>>
>> I also had to add a new dollar variable for LDIF files:
>> $ESCAPED_SUFFIX. We need it to create entries that contain the DN of
>> another entry in their own, like the account activated/inactivated CoS
>> entries.
>>
>> what I tested:
>> - playing around with password policies and CoS entries using both
>> pwpolicy and pwpolicy2
>> - changing user passwords to see if the policies apply
>> - re-installing IPA to see if the activated/inactived CoS entries
>> where OK
>> - user-lock/user-unlock
>>
>> The patch depends on the pwpolicy2 plugin. Well, it doesn't depend on
>> it, but won't apply without. I didn't realize before committing and
>> couldn't get it back by re-basing, so...
>>
>> Pavel
>
> replication also uses v2-style escaping. This code looks ok for what it
> touches but it isn't complete.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that the cn="SUFFIX",cn=mapping tree,cn=config 
entry is created automatically by DS and there's no much we can do about it. We 
could delete the entry and create a new one, but I suspect replication won't 
like it.

> rob

Pavel