Joe Orton wrote:
Since 2.0.54, it seems mod_auth_ldap just segfaults on any request if built against older versions of OpenLDAP, 2.2.20 and earlier (pre-2005). It looks like this was another regression caused the addition of the LDAPConnectionTimeout option. (New features, stable branch, regressions? Hmmm, I spot a pattern)
The LDAP code in v2.0.x is experimental, so is cannot be expected to be as stable as the rest of the code.
To be more specific, a lot of the v2.0 code was rewritten and refactored for v2.2 and was not backported to v2.0 as the new code depended on APR v1.0.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34618 mentions this with "upgrade OpenLDAP" as the solution, which isn't really a great way to give your users that warm fuzzy feeling.
The "experimental" tag on the LDAP code should have dispensed with any warm fuzzy feelings from the outset.
Any objections to this?
None at all - if the v2.0 code can be made more stable this is always a good thing, but there are lots more problems in the v2.0 code that are fixed in the v2.2 rewrite.
Roll on httpd v2.2. Regards, Graham --
