[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#600872: Bug#600872: Debconf generates EOL in password files

[Russ Allbery]

Craig Ringer <craig at 2ndQuadrant.com> writes:

> While upstream may be unwilling to accept a patch for this, it'd be
> really helpful if debconf didn't append a newline to the password files
> like /etc/libnss-ldap.secret.

> Right now, debconf generates password files that ldapsearch -y cannot
> accept.

> This breaks things like ldapscripts.

That would need to be filed as bugs against the packages that are using
debconf to generate this file.  debconf itself doesn't add newlines to
things.  I suspect that the package maintainer scripts in those specific
packages are using something akin to:

    echo "$RET" > /etc/libnss-ldap.secret

which is invalid for files that need to be used by ldapsearch -y.

But this isn't something that can be fixed in the openldap package (apart
from changing ldapsearch -y, and I think it's a bad idea to diverge from
upstream).

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>