[Dovecot] rc12 dovecot-auth core dump with ldap

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Nov 7 12:51:33 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:38 +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> #0  0x1ec94 in db_ldap_init (
>     config_path=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf")
>     at db-ldap.c:661
> 661             if (*conn->set.user_global_gid == '\0')

OK, so this crashes if compiled with non-C99 compiler. Fixed:

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-November/006733.html

> If I don't define "deref" then I get an error in the dovecot log (but no
> crash) :-
> 
> dovecot: Nov 07 12:36:45 Error: auth(default): LDAP: Unknown deref
> option 'subtree'

That's because this check is done before the GID check, and it dies
immediately if the check fails.

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