ldap db support

Savitha R rsavitha at novell.com
Thu Aug 24 11:14:50 EDT 2006



>>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at  2:33 AM, in message
<tx17j11ls36.fsf at mit.edu>, Ken
Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> wrote: 
> I've been experimenting with kdb5_ldap_util on NetBSD and Linux
> systems for creating and destroying a database (LDAP server running
on
> the NetBSD box; both systems running on x86 family processors). 
Both
> complain about problems in memory management, though the detection
of
> the problem seems to be buried in the openldap code, during the
unbind
> calls.
> 
> Using valgrind and electric fence are not helping much, so far,
> basically they just show the same error at the same place.  Have
other
> people seen this problem, or should I keep digging?  (Are any code
> changes in the area of the cleanup or initialization going to be
> coming soon?)
> 
We did see this problem with unbind calls in some versions of
OpenLDAP.
It would cause kdb5_ldap_util to hang.
But it worked fine when OpenLDAP client was upgraded.

We are not working on any changes in the cleanup or initialization
code.


Regards
Savitha




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