From: Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:51:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Robert Bannocks' patch for an LDAP problem on Solaris LDAP.
X-Git-Tag: exim-4_64~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/21eb6e72d6d616a6430e1346e085b7cc74298f88?hp=922e1c28fd6e43dce9a91523742563756339413c

Robert Bannocks' patch for an LDAP problem on Solaris LDAP.
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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index c9b69ab37..1a8a1af5d 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.445 2006/12/19 14:38:38 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.446 2006/12/19 14:51:34 ph10 Exp $
 
 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
 -------------------------------------------
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
       bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
 
+PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
+      arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
+
 
 Exim version 4.63
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diff --git a/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS b/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
index 2f8f5acb0..08440283a 100644
--- a/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+++ b/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,v 1.66 2006/12/12 15:47:39 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/src/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,v 1.67 2006/12/19 14:51:34 ph10 Exp $
 
 EXIM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ relatively small patches.
 Philip Hazel
 
 Lists created: 20 November 2002
-Last updated:  12 December 2006
+Last updated:  19 December 2006
 
 
 THE OLD LIST
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Alexander Alekseev        Use of function attribute checks in gcc
 Justo Alonso              Suggested patch for maildir++ maildirsize file support
 Anton Altaparmakov        Patches to get cyrus_sasl fully working
 Claus Assmann             Example code for OpenSSL CRL support
+Robert Bannocks           Patch for LDAP reference problem on Solaris
 Ian Bell                  Analysis of a bug and an infelicity in clock tick code
                           Patch for ${quote_local_part
 Peter Benie               A number mistakes found by analysing the code
diff --git a/src/src/lookups/ldap.c b/src/src/lookups/ldap.c
index 55761977c..b0a4cc2e9 100644
--- a/src/src/lookups/ldap.c
+++ b/src/src/lookups/ldap.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/lookups/ldap.c,v 1.12 2006/07/17 09:18:09 ph10 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/lookups/ldap.c,v 1.13 2006/12/19 14:51:34 ph10 Exp $ */
 
 /*************************************************
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
@@ -853,18 +853,27 @@ We need to parse the message to find out exactly what's happened. */
   (1) If we get LDAP_SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED, just carry on, to return the
       truncated result list.
 
-  (2) The range of errors defined by LDAP_NAME_ERROR generally mean "that
+  (2) If we get LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE, also just carry on. This was a
+      submitted patch that is reported to "do the right thing" with Solaris
+      LDAP libraries. (The problem it addresses apparently does not occur with
+      Open LDAP.)
+
+  (3) The range of errors defined by LDAP_NAME_ERROR generally mean "that
       object does not, or cannot, exist in the database". For those cases we
       fail the lookup.
 
-  (3) All other non-successes here are treated as some kind of problem with
+  (4) All other non-successes here are treated as some kind of problem with
       the lookup, so return DEFER (which is the default in error_yield).
 */
 
 DEBUG(D_lookup) debug_printf("ldap_parse_result yielded %d: %s\n",
   rc, ldap_err2string(rc));
 
-if (rc != LDAP_SUCCESS && rc != LDAP_SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED)
+if (rc != LDAP_SUCCESS && rc != LDAP_SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED
+    #ifdef LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE
+    && rc != LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE
+    #endif
+    )
   {
   *errmsg = string_sprintf("LDAP search failed - error %d: %s%s%s%s%s",
     rc,