[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use escapes in DNs instead of quoting.

[Rob Crittenden]

Pavel Zuna wrote:
> This patch effectively removes all LDAPv2 style quoted DNs and makes 
> sure we don't use them anymore.
> 
> KDC doesn't seem to have any problems with LDAPv3 style DNs, but I kept 
> the option to disable DN normalization for now.
> 
> I also had to add a new dollar variable for LDIF files: $ESCAPED_SUFFIX. 
> We need it to create entries that contain the DN of another entry in 
> their own, like the account activated/inactivated CoS entries.
> 
> what I tested:
> - playing around with password policies and CoS entries using both 
> pwpolicy and pwpolicy2
> - changing user passwords to see if the policies apply
> - re-installing IPA to see if the activated/inactived CoS entries where OK
> - user-lock/user-unlock
> 
> The patch depends on the pwpolicy2 plugin. Well, it doesn't depend on 
> it, but won't apply without. I didn't realize before committing and 
> couldn't get it back by re-basing, so...
> 
> Pavel

replication also uses v2-style escaping. This code looks ok for what it 
touches but it isn't complete.

rob