On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Marian Eichholz wrote:
> most probably, ldap_quote_dn in exim 4.14 does *not*, what RFC 1485
> recommends as DN string representation.
I am not an LDAP user. The quoting rules in LDAP seem to give rise to a
huge amount of trouble and problems. Most of the LDAP code in Exim
originated as code submitted by LDAP users. Several times now, people
have said "the quoting is wrong; this is how you should do it", and as a
result, I have changed the code. Several times. Why is this
specification so complicated?
So you are following in a well-established tradition... :-)
> Have a look at the patch below with introduces a "new" eldap_quote_dn() and
> eliminates the special DN encoding part in eldap_quote().
>
> Please let me know, if I am right with this approach.
Well, I'm afraid I don't know. Please can the other LDAP users on this
list who know about this stuff take a look and give your views.
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