I have applied a patch which seems to fix this problem, but I do not know the code 
well enough to know if other areas need dealing with too.

The patch is very simple, I put the following line at the start of append_attr():

  if(new_attr == NULL) return;

Phil.
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Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Exeter

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:20:06 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Philip Chambers 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I have now identified the cause and it appears that mods applied pdb_ldap.c did not 
> take ldapsam_compat mode into account.  ldapsam_getsampwnam() is trying to get the 
> LDAP_ATTR_MOD_TIMESTAMP attribute from attrib_map_v22 when it is only present in 
> attrib_map_v30.
> 
> Is ther a quick fix to this bug?
> 
> Phil.
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:25:11 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Philip Chambers 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed 3.0.7 so that I can use "write list" and "force user" 
> > together 
> > and it panics!
> > 
> > I have diagnosed the problem to the line at which it fails, but not yet back to 
> > the 
> > root cause.
> > 
> > The first call to append_attr() in ldapsam_getsampwnam() is being made with 
> > new_attr 
> > having a value of NULL.  This causes strdup(new_attr) to fail.
> > 
> > The NULL is being generated by get_auserattr_key2string() which is being called 
> > with 
> > schema_ver = 1 and key = 41 (LDAP_ATTR_MOD_TIMESTAMP).
> > 
> > Before spending time tracking this further I would appreciate it if someone who is 
> > familiar with this code could quickly identify the root cause.
> > 
> > I am running on Solaris 9.
> > 
> > Phil.
> 
> 
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