[Freeipa-users] upstream ipa on centos inside openvz container

[Ivan Levchenko]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Angel Marin <anmar at anmar.eu.org> wrote:
>
> It's been on my TODO for a while, but haven't had the time to pinpoint
> which chars are a problem to what attributes.
>
> There are at least two different issues here:

I would say three actually - the script doesn't handle/catch the issue
if the directory server itself doesn't start. it just carries on like
everything is ok and tries to connect to it. after a bunch of things
cannot connect to the directory server, it then exits.

>
>  1. FDS segfaults when it doesn't like what it finds on some attributes.
> For example leave an empty nsslapd-rootpw in dse.ldif and FDS crashes.
>
>  2. IPA setup script generates an empty nsslapd-rootpw when the
> directory server admin password typed contains certain chars. I think it
> was at least '. Same password provided for kdc admin user does not

Bingo, I had that character, and some more (see previous post)