[pve-devel] [PATCH access-control/docs 0/2] fix #3748: Allow reserved characters in attribute values of LDAP DNs

[Christoph Heiss]

Ping. It's a rather minor change and it would be nice to get this in
sometime, as this fixes an actual problem some users have :^)

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:50:41PM +0100, Christoph Heiss wrote:
> This fixes #3748 [0] by allowing reserved characters in `bind_dn` (and
> other properties of the same format) if they are properly quoted and
> adds some corresponding documentation regarding that.
>
> This was tested by setting up a slapd server and creating a user with
> the CN `Test, User` much like in the bug report, then using this user as
> `bind_dn` in the sync options. I also tested some variants of that CN,
> including just `TestUser`.)
>
> One thing that still won't work is syncing of LDAP users with colons or
> slashes in their CNs. In such cases, the message
>
>   value 'Test, User at ldap' does not look like a valid user name
>
> will pop up.
>
> This is due to spaces and colons being explicitly disallowed in
> usernames [1]. This probably means that such names can never be allowed,
> which is being documented too as part of patch 2.
>
> But with this series, such users can be at least used to bind for
> syncing.
>
> [0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3748
> [1] https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-access-control.git;a=blob;f=src/PVE/Auth/Plugin.pm;hb=HEAD#l115
>
> Christoph Heiss (1):
>       ldap: Allow quoted values for DN attribute values
>
>  src/PVE/Auth/LDAP.pm | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Christoph Heiss (1):
>       pveum: Document reserved characters and quoting of LDAP DNs
>
>  pveum.adoc | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
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> 2.34.1
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