Bug#905237: (ITS#8890) Bug fix patches unbreaking the build on x32 systems

2018-12-19 Thread Howard Chu
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Howard Chu dixit: > >> Thanks to the wonderful geniuses at Microsoft, not all the world >> uses LP64. IL32 is a thing. And this code works on those platforms. > > These changes do not break LLP64 (this is the correct name > for the 64-bit Wi

Bug#905237: (ITS#8890) Bug fix patches unbreaking the build on x32 systems

2018-12-18 Thread Howard Chu
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Howard Chu dixit: > >> This patch of yours *introduces a bug*. If you wanted to actually *fix* >> something you should have made sure the malloc'd buffer - which only happens >> 2 lines above the lines you change - was large enough to store a

Bug#905237: (ITS#8890) Bug fix patches unbreaking the build on x32 systems

2018-12-18 Thread Howard Chu
keys[0].bv_len = snprintf(keys[0].bv_val, + LDAP_PVT_INTTYPE_CHARS(long), +- "%ld", slap_get_time() + pi->smb_can_change); ++ "%lld", (long long)slap_get_time() + (long long)pi->smb_can_change); + BER_BVZERO( &a

Bug#585527: netkit-telnet: telnet and telnetd should support real LINEMODE

2015-01-19 Thread Howard Chu
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:54:44 +0200 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 04:44:34AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Package: netkit-telnet > Version: 0.17 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > > This patch is actually just a stepping stone to getting the d

Bug#750022: slapd: offer mdb backend in configuration

2014-08-11 Thread Howard Chu
in is starting to invent things... ITS#7903. The disk format will not change backward-incompatibly in 2.4, but it sounds like it will at the transition to 2.5. ([ITS#7713] is an example of a format-breaking change.) [ITS#7713] <http://www.openldap.org/its/?findid=7713> -- -- Howar

Bug#748373: python-lmdb

2014-05-18 Thread Howard Chu
Just a small note - while I am the author of LMDB, I am not the author of py-lmdb. That's David Wilson. But we do keep in close contact... -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, Ope

Bug#575461: finch: ability to use OTR-encryption

2014-01-03 Thread Howard Chu
nt @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs

Bug#368297: About the libgcrypt and OpenLDAP issue

2013-04-19 Thread Howard Chu
ve spent enough time on this, it's past time to move on. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#368297: About the libgcrypt and OpenLDAP issue

2013-04-19 Thread Howard Chu
SS, a poorly designed API with requirements that are impossible to satisfy in the real world, and more trouble than it's worth. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, Open

Bug#658896: LDAP, GnuTLS/libgcrypt

2013-01-24 Thread Howard Chu
that. It's not our fault that libgcrypt's design is so broken that even when you use it as documented it doesn't work. We've been telling you for *years* that GnuTLS is broken by design. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Direct

Bug#688797: Dead lock on BDB and partial stop on slapd

2012-10-11 Thread Howard Chu
ot; ) failure just before. Also, are you using cn=config on these servers, and did you just reconfigure the index of the relevant attribute prior to the hang? (E.g., in your trace, the istPersonServices attribute.) -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Dire

Bug#663195: finch patches for OTR plugin support

2012-03-09 Thread Howard Chu
//gitorious.org/purple-otr#more and they've already been merged in the pidgin upstream source. But they're slated for release in pidgin 3.0.0 which is probably far off still, and this code is usable right now. It would be nice to make it available in an updated 2.10.x package. -- -

Bug#575461: finch: ability to use OTR-encryption

2012-03-08 Thread Howard Chu
Thibaut VARENE wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Howard Chu wrote: Just fyi, all of my pidgin/finch patches have been merged upstream. They're targeted at a 3.0.0 release though, so it doesn't seem there will be any official 2.10.x update with the features enabled. Personal

Bug#575461: finch: ability to use OTR-encryption

2012-02-25 Thread Howard Chu
Howard Chu wrote: Just for reference, the upstream bug report has been re-opened since I started working on the issue: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11623 3 out of 4 of my patches have already been integrated into pidgin upstream, and I expect the last will be merged soon. Just fyi, all

Bug#654824: failure on freebsd

2012-02-14 Thread Howard Chu
tection for the BSD flavor you're running. You should also report issues like this to the BSD projects and tell them to fix their pthread support. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Archi

Bug#575461: finch: ability to use OTR-encryption

2012-01-25 Thread Howard Chu
r.archlinux.org/packages/pu/purple-otr/ I would have preferred that my code be merged into the OTR Project's code first; I didn't mean to fork their stuff permanently. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Howard Chu wrote: I've rewritten the pidgin-otr-3.2.0 plugin to use the libpurple

Bug#654665: rtmpdump respetice flvstreamer ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed

2012-01-08 Thread Howard Chu
ortal/mediathek/Reportage+Dokumentation/c_20/206683/ -o ~/test.flv RTMPDump v2.3 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed With the latest upstream git revision, the comand abov

Bug#649408: gnome-keyring: no socket to connect to

2011-12-22 Thread Howard Chu
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649408#37 , #649408 is breaking services on my headless server. There is no desktop system of any kind installed. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/

Bug#575461: finch: ability to use OTR-encryption

2011-12-20 Thread Howard Chu
with some user and developer feedback we'll find a way forward to bring this support into the official OTR sources down the road. I use this with pidgin/finch 2.10.1 with 4 additional patches, as detailed in the links above. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www

Bug#561865: Interim Fix

2011-12-19 Thread Howard Chu
Until the new libotr API is deployed, this hack will solve the problem for pidgin-otr-3.2.0. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ >F

Bug#561865: Finding the problem

2011-12-19 Thread Howard Chu
ibrary API means that every app and plugin built on top of libotr will also need to be updated... -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To U

Bug#649408: Also affecting pop3d

2011-12-13 Thread Howard Chu
hell are headless network services trying to talk to the Gnome keyring in the first place? The idiocy of this is astounding. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.open

Bug#541256: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#541256: slapd: could not set cipher list SIGABRT

2011-05-11 Thread Howard Chu
e place to file this bug. <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=6939> --Quanah A backtrace is needed. And I'm not sure we should handle this upstream, depending on whatever other patches may be in the debian build that we don't know about. -- -- Howard Chu CTO,

Bug#585527: Updated patch

2010-06-18 Thread Howard Chu
glibc patches will also be needed to expose the new ioctl bits too. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ netkit.dif Description: video/dv

Bug#585527: netkit-telnet: telnet and telnetd should support real LINEMODE

2010-06-14 Thread Howard Chu
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 04:44:34AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Package: netkit-telnet Version: 0.17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This patch is actually just a stepping stone to getting the desired functionality into ssh, but I'm starting here in case pe

Bug#585527: netkit-telnet: telnet and telnetd should support real LINEMODE

2010-06-11 Thread Howard Chu
PT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- -- Howard Chu CTO,

Bug#529974: New home

2010-05-06 Thread Howard Chu
is http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#566351: libgcrypt problem

2010-05-03 Thread Howard Chu
Simon Josefsson wrote: Howard Chu writes: App writers using gnutls should not need to know that libgcrypt is under the covers and needs special handling. The Libgcrypt designers appears to have believed otherwise, and given how broken the applications appear to be in this area decision

Bug#566351: libgcrypt problem

2010-04-30 Thread Howard Chu
Simon Josefsson wrote: Howard Chu writes: None of the gnutls docs mention that any special initialization function needs to be called when using it in a threaded application. You must have missed this section: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Multi_002dthreaded

Bug#566351: libgcrypt problem

2010-04-29 Thread Howard Chu
s it takes to initialize libgcrypt, so that gnutls callers are completely shielded from the lower API layers. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/proj

Bug#555445: But bears further investigation

2009-12-16 Thread Howard Chu
The problem was caused by a bug in the C++ runtime support on ARM, and was fixed by rewriting some key functions in C. I expect that other C++ code ported to ARM could encounter the same problems. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun

Bug#556887: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal: Heimdal GSSAPI module incorrectly built with mutexes

2009-11-20 Thread Howard Chu
they complete. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Bug#541256: TLS: could not set cipher list TLS_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1

2009-08-13 Thread Howard Chu
intenance is only going up. Whether you want to hear it or not, we are obligated to state for the record that using GnuTLS is a bad idea, because that's the objective truth. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlands

Bug#541292: bug reference

2009-08-12 Thread Howard Chu
The actual bug was ITS#5968, not 5959. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#541292: Using an illegal RDN

2009-08-12 Thread Howard Chu
this rule. Changing the RDN to simply "cn=echo" is probably the best fix. There's no added value in putting the ipServiceProtocol into the DN, it doesn't make the entries any easier to lookup (in fact it makes it harder...). -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. h

Bug#539421: OpenLDAP UDP support

2009-08-10 Thread Howard Chu
UDP support is non-standard. There is no specification for it in LDAPv3 and there never will be. Since there is no formal specification of how it should function, there is no way to claim it works (correctly or not) therefore it is officially unsupported. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp

Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

2008-10-09 Thread Howard Chu
Clint Adams wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:00:17PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: I've just rerun my tests using both BDB 4.2.52 and 4.6.21 and the behavior is as expected. On an otherwise idle machine, both perform well, completing our concurrency test in about 31 seconds. With a CPU-hog ru

Bug#495316: ldapsearch hangs...

2008-08-18 Thread Howard Chu
g the two violates the API definition. When you upgrade to OpenLDAP 2.4's libldap you can use "TIMEOUT" in ldap.conf(5) to set the API timeout. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief

Bug#464937: slapd sasl error on ldapdb

2008-02-19 Thread Howard Chu
As documented in the Cyrus-SASL doc/options.html file http://www.koders.com/noncode/fidE1912FF9708236770CB92228A6534E660848F498.aspx#L288 it is normal and intended for slapd to fail to load the ldapdb plugin. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director

Bug#466558: OpenLDAP 2.4/GnuTLS

2008-02-19 Thread Howard Chu
The GnuTLS support in OpenLDAP 2.4 was developed using GnuTLS 1.7, and is known to work up to GnuTLS 2.1.7. The cert subjectAltName bug was introduced in GnuTLS 2.1.8 so releases after that point are broken. I haven't yet seen which 2.2/2.3 releases will include the fix. -- -- Howar

Bug#340601: libldap issues

2008-02-11 Thread Howard Chu
only be linked with libldap, not libldap_r. (Remember, nss_ldap was written to work with other vendors' libraries too, and none of them are re-entrant, so it has to do the locking itself.) -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun

Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

2007-10-08 Thread Howard Chu
Clint Adams wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:23:22PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: The test I used most recently was to run test008 in the OpenLDAP test suite and average the runtimes over 5-10 runs for each BDB version. In my tests I ran with SLAPD_DEBUG=0 so the only I/O traffic is from BDB and

Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

2007-10-08 Thread Howard Chu
Clint Adams wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:23:22PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: The test I used most recently was to run test008 in the OpenLDAP test suite and average the runtimes over 5-10 runs for each BDB version. In my tests I ran with SLAPD_DEBUG=0 so the only I/O traffic is from BDB and

Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

2007-09-03 Thread Howard Chu
their pattern is unpredictable on most systems. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Bug#378261: slapd fails under heavy load due to descriptor limit

2007-09-03 Thread Howard Chu
eeping the connection unacknowledged (by stopping the accepts) would be worse because clients would just hang until something else frees up. At least this way, when you *do* have an alternate server to contact, you can get bounced over to it quickly. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas C

Bug#387467: (ITS#4750) libldap initialization of ~/.ldaprc and setuid

2006-11-14 Thread Howard Chu
s may realize, but I'll freely admit that my concern at that point is theoretical. I'm not totally convinced yet, will think about it. The patch would have to be #ifdef'd (HAVE_GETEUID or something) since it would not be relevant on Windows and some other obscure platforms. -- -

Bug#387467: (ITS#4750) libldap initialization of ~/.ldaprc and setuid

2006-11-14 Thread Howard Chu
Howard Chu wrote: saslid - ignored unless you set usesasl. If you enable sasl without setting a saslid, it's possible for some arbitrary ID to be configured. But again, without a password, such a setting is usually useless. If you're using a mech like GSSAPI or EXTERNAL that d

Bug#387467: (ITS#4750) libldap initialization of ~/.ldaprc and setuid

2006-11-14 Thread Howard Chu
Russ Allbery wrote: Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This whole line of reasoning appears to be based on the assumption that OpenLDAP's ldap.conf and pam/nss_ldap's ldap.conf are equivalent, which is false. Well, no, my line of reasoning is not based on this. My line

Bug#387467: (ITS#4750) libldap initialization of ~/.ldaprc and setuid

2006-11-14 Thread Howard Chu
ch that arbitrary defaults outside the app's awareness are never used. That's just common sense. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org