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Re: (ITS#4224) Incorrect return code from dyngroup/dynlist when checking membership of a non-existing DN?
- To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
- Subject: Re: (ITS#4224) Incorrect return code from dyngroup/dynlist when checking membership of a non-existing DN?
- From: hyc@symas.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:57:25 GMT
ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> Full_Name: Pierangelo Masarati
> Version: HEAD,re23
> OS: irrelevant
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (81.72.89.40)
> Submitted by: ando
>
>
> I've found out that if I run a compare for "member:cn=Non-Existing" with either
> dyngroup or dynlist, I get noSuchObject (32) instead of FALSE. The dynamic
> object correctly expands "memberURL" attributes into lists of "member"
> attributes, so the "member" attribute virtually exists, but the value doesn't,
> so backend_group() return noSuchObject, and this error is echoed in the result.
> I think this is incorrect, because since "member" virtually exists, while the
> asserted value is absent, the correct return code should be compareFalse.
>
> I'd fix the code this way in the overlays unless there are objections.
Makes sense.
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