Re: olcDefaultSearchBase: value #0: <olcDefaultSearchBase> invalid DN 21 (Invalid syntax)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> [moved to -devel]
>
>   
> > This appears to be a design flaw in back-config; it is trying to parse
> > that DN before it has loaded the core schema and so does not have the
> > "dc" definition yet. Please submit this information to the OpenLDAP ITS.
> >     
>
> - load all DN valued fields before schema as strings and normalize at end?
> - condition DN normalization/pretty after schema initialization?  (but:
> how to tell DN normalization that schema is ready?)
> - add a config root entry that contains no data, and move the data of the
> olcGlobal to a child of it that is loaded after schema?
In this instance we may be able to do something simpler, and only move 
the olcDefaultSearchBase attribute out of the olcGlobal object, as it 
appears to be the only thing in olcGlobal that depends on runtime-loaded 
schema. Moving it to the frontendDB object may be the most convenient 
solution.

There's another workaround here, since the olcGlobal object also allows 
schema definitions - just insert the required olcAttributeTypes 
definitions in the global object before the olcDefaultSearchbase 
attribute. That of course means the relevant attributeTypes must be 
commented out of any later occurrences. And as the code sorts the 
attributes before parsing them, we'll have to patch the olcGlobal 
definition in bconfig.c to put the schema attributes ahead of 
olcDefaultSearchBase.

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