On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Etienne OBRIOT
<etienne.obr...@ddblink.fr>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We found a (minor) limit case when using variables containing LDAP
> credentials in resources.cfg :
> We have a $DOMAINUSER$ variable of the form
> $DOMAINUSER$=CN=xxxx,OU=xxxx,dc=xxx
> When using this variable for launching commands, we found that the variable
> was only substitued with "CN".
>
> Investigating a bit further, we found the culprit in config.py, function
> load_params :
> each line of the config file was parsed with "=" being the separator char
> (with elt.split("="), around line 338) to get on one hand the variable name,
> and on the other hand the variable content.
> When parsing a value with "=" in it, the string was split in more
> components, so what was after the second "=" was lost.
> By modifying
> elt.split('=')
> to
> elt.split('=',1)
> We ensured that our variable was getting the correct content. So far (one
> day after), we didn't experience any side effect regarding to this
> modification.
>
> Did it happen to anyone else?
> Is there a way to correctly parse the variable content without modifying
> the actual code? Or should we submit a proper patch?
>
> Hi,
It's a bug :)
I don't think it's possible to bypass it in the current code.
Thanks for hunting it. I'll put the fix (and welcome in the THANKS file :)
).
Jean
> Best regards,
>
> Etienne Obriot
>
>
>
>
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