[Freeipa-users] ipa migrate-ds failing when more than 1 namingcontext is available

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 13:42 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 
> This came up yesterday internally too. I don't believe a bug or ticket 
> has been filed yet.
> 
> My best guess on what is happening, based on what I saw with our own 
> case, is this:
> 
> A migrated attribute is coming in that IPA doesn't know about. We 
> default to treating all attributes that don't require special treatment 
> (like binary values) as utf-8. I'm guessing that an unknown binary 
> attribute is being migrated, we try to utf-8 encode it and kablooey.
> 
> There is no easy workaround for the above problem right now because that 
> happens before the --ignore* options are considered.
> 

Why don't we just base64-encode unknown attributes instead of treating
them like UTF-8? The LDAP server is *supposed* to be able to handle this
implicitly.
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