I don't doubt that, but the question is whether or not the patch is palatable...
________________________________ From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@zimbra.com> To: Doug Wegscheid <dwegsch...@sbcglobal.net>; perl-ldap@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Reading LDIF files containing controls --On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 7:00 AM -0700 Doug Wegscheid <dwegsch...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > I have a use case for analyzing LDIF dumps of our LDAP directory. The > dump utility puts some controls in the output file, so Net::LDAP::LDIF > won't read them, it fails with "Controls only allowed with LDIF change > entries". > > I put a patch on to allow reading of controls for non-change entries by > specifying controls_always_legal => 1 on the Net::LDAP::LDIF->new() call. Sounds to me like your dump utility is creating LDIF that violates <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2849> --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
