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[Tom Zeller <>]

I took care when comparing DNs to use a canonical representation to
avoid issues with case. I could have made a mistake.

I think I have a junit test for this, let me look ...

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Paul Engle 
<>
 wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>  I'm running into a vexing problem with ldappcng that I think may be a bug.
> I'm running version 1.6.3 & provisioning into a FedoraDS server. Groups are
> groupOfUniqueNames and the DN of group members are stored as uniqueMember
> values. The problem is that at some point when the provisioner was offline,
> a person was manually entered into LDAP as a quick workaround. The DN string
> was entered as all lowercase: uid=foo,ou=people,dc=rice,dc=edu.
>
> Ever since, when the group tries to sync via ldappcng, it fails. In the LDAP
> server logs, it's throwing an attribute exists error for the group object.
>
> Running the ldappcng as a one-off diff for that group shows that it wants to
> do an add of "uid=foo,ou=People,dc=rice,dc=edu" and a delete of
> "uid=foo,ou=people,dc=rice,dc=edu" (!)
>
> I can manually delete that uniqueMember value, and the sync works fine. BUT,
> the ldap server is doing some funky caching so the value that actually gets
> stored is still all lowercase. Grr.
>
> I wouldn't have expected a simple case mismatch to have triggered a
> modification event. If that's not a bug, then I would petition that the
> modification order be deletes before adds to avoid hitting the attribute
> exists error on the ldap server.
>
> I'm going to fight with the ldap server some more to see if I can get it to
> forget the lowercase value. Even manually deleteting it and re-adding it
> with uppercase doesn't seem to work, so I know the caching issue is not on
> the grouper side. I think the next step is to just delete the whole group
> object and sync it fresh. Any other suggestions are welcome.
>
>
>  -paul
>
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