Christoph Holtermann wrote:
> I am working on a filter that makes Thunderbirds LDIF-Output
> importable to OpenLDAP. It works quite fine except for names
> that include ",". OpenLDAP dislikes the output that is produced
> like :
Can you please elaborate on which exact problems you have with OpenLDAP?
> dn: cn=Lehmann\, Veronika,dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph
This looks like a perfectly valid DN string representation to me.
> cn: Lehmann\, Veronika
This is wrong since the attribute value for cn is supposed to be
'Lehmann, Veronika' not 'Lehmann\\, Veronika' (strings here in Python
string notation with single \ escaped to \\). OpenLDAP is pretty strict
when checking the characteristic attribute used in the RDN of entry.
> I found out that an encoding like "\2C" is accepted, like :
>
> dn: cn=Lehmann\2C Veronika,dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph
Yes, that's an alternate style also valid according to RFC 4514.
> The code that is about that problem looks like :
>
> basedn='dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph'
>
> def fix_dn(self, dn):
> try:
> self.head=ldap.dn.explode_dn(dn)[0]
> for i in range(len(dn_warning)):
> if self.head.find(dn_warning[i])>-1:
> print "dn :",self.head, "contains '",dn_warning[i],"' - change
> manually !"
> return self.head + ',' + basedn
> except:
> if dn==None:
> print "No dn specified"
> return None
Glancing over this I don't understand your code. What is this function
supposed to do?
At least this looks correct to me:
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:52:03)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ldap
>>> ldap.explode_dn('cn=Lehmann\, Veronika,dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph')
['cn=Lehmann\\, Veronika', 'dc=Adressbuch', 'dc=christoph']
>>>
Ciao, Michael.
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