Re: BDB and cache settings - anything wrong? userPassword field keeps getting corrupted.

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:21 PM +0800 k bah <kbah@linuxmail.org> 
wrote:

>  I have one LDAP master server, a test server, which no one but me has
> access to (at least I think). Something really strange is happening,
> userPassword fields (they are in MD5 format) keep getting changed every 1
> or 2 days. Sometimes they change after a mass add operation, or mass
> delete operation. It could be someone messing with me, but that would be
> unusual, since they also happen after I do mass operations on the server.
> I rechecked my "mass operation" scripts, and they do not seem to be
> breaking other entries while they operate on a given entry (add/delete
> entry and bind with that DN).  I think maybe my BDB and cache settings
> may be causing it, it's just a thought, I really don't know what's going
> on:

Have you audited the logs to see if perhaps the userPassword field for 
those entries is simply being modified in your updates?

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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