[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#662940: Bug#662940: slapd gives assertions for valid configuration

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:28 PM +0100 Mattias Ellert 
<mattias.ellert at fysast.uu.se> wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.28-1.1
> Severity: normal
>
> When configuring the shell backend in slapd.conf the syntax is (see man
> slapd-shell):
>
> add <pathname> <argument>...
> bind <pathname> <argument>...
> compare <pathname> <argument>...
>
> and so on.
>
> That is the path to the script followed by its arguments. This has
> worked fine in the past. However, the current version 2.4.28-1.1 of the
> slapd server refuses to start if any arguments are given after the path
> name in the configuration file, with the following assertion:
>
> slapd: ../../../../servers/slapd/config.c:198: config_check_vals:
> Assertion `c->argc == 2' failed.
>
> For the configuration of the shell backend the assertion condition means
> that it is not possible to pass arguments to the script in the
> slapd.conf. The man pages documents that this should still be possible,
> and it has been working with earlier versions.
>
> 	Mattias
>


I've filed <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=7201> for this.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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