[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] fix user.getValue()

[Rob Crittenden]

Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> I think we should be looking at the value instead of value[0] to
> determine what it is.  I stumbled across this bug because I was able to
> submit telephoneNumber as an empty string.  The code was blowing up
> trying to do a value[0] on "".
> 
> This raises a point about whether we should allow empty strings into
> LDAP.  Pete had some points about this, but I'll allow him to state them
> (since I'm not sure I understood them).
> 
> -Kevin

I suspect that the proper fix is to not allow empty attributes to be set 
in the first place.

rob
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