question regarding LDAP plugin, policy and princ attributes

[Will Fiveash]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:09:25PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 06:50:59AM -0600, Savitha R wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > We are not able to see this in our setup. Can you give us some
> > details(like platform, version...)
> > about your test environment? 
> > 
> > Are you able to get correct values for other attributes like max
> > renewable life and 
> > password expiration time?
> 
> No.
> 
> I think I found the problem.  In
> src/plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_misc.c:decode_tl_data()
> there is:
> 
>     curr = tl_data->tl_data_contents;
>     while(curr < (tl_data->tl_data_contents + tl_data->tl_data_length)) {
> 
>     /* get the type of the content */
>     memset(&subtype, curr[0], 1);
>     /* forward by 1 byte*/
>     curr += 1;
>     
>     if (subtype == tl_type) {
> 
> Note that subtype is an int.  The
> 
>     /* get the type of the content */
>     memset(&subtype, curr[0], 1);
> 
> Is a problem for big endian systems (like my test system UltraSparc) as
> it sets the big end of the int instead of the litte end.

If I change:

    memset(&subtype, curr[0], 1);
to
    subtype = (int) curr[0];

the max_life and other attributes are properly displayed.
-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)