Re: slaptest conversion of acl regex'es drops backslashes (correct resubmission 2)

[Nick Milas <nick@eurobjects.com>]

On 6/6/2012 2:19 ÎÎ, Howard Chu wrote:

> Obscure? Are those ACL statements in slapd.conf or aren't they? Do 
> backslashes in slapd.conf need to be escaped or don't they? It's not 
> like it says "backslashes must escaped except on alternate Tuesdays." 

Thanks for the humor. [ I guess I had success with non-escaped 
backslashes cos it was an alternate Tuesday yesterday :-) ]

It was obscure, because regex'es DO work with single backslashes...

So I will conclude that the use of single backslashes in slapd.conf in 
ACL regex'es is unsupported.

Thanks,
Nick