[Alpine-info] ldap-servers and $USER possible?

[David Morris]

Can you use a different environment variable, eg $ADUSER and set it
externally the catenated string .... if bash is the shell:
    export ADUSER=myad\\myuser


On Thu, 28 May 2009, Liam Gretton wrote:


> On 17/04/2009 14:49, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Liam Gretton wrote:

>> 

>> :) Every means of quoting and escaping I've tried has failed. Here's what 

>> :) I have ldap-servers set to currently:

>> :) :) ldap-servers=host.com:port "/base=dc=host,dc=com/binddn=${USER}"

>> 

>> You need to recompile Alpine to make this work.

>

> [snip]

>

>>   I did not try this, but it should work.

>

> It does indeed, thanks.

>

> Unfortunately my example above isn't the whole story, so I still have a 

> problem. The username actually ahs to be prefixed with an AD domain name 

> (e.g. dom\user). Introducing the backslash prevents the expansion of the 

> environment variable though, no matter how I try to escape the slash itself. 

> Having looked at the expand_variables() function in pith/conf.c I can see 

> there are two means of escaping using \\$ or $$, but the closest I get is by 

> using:

>

> ldap-servers=host.com:port "/base=dc=host,dc=com/binddn=dom\$${USER}"

>

> which becomes dom\$user instead of dom\user.

>

> I wonder if there's a bug in expand_variables() where \\$ is expanded here 

> are lines 4758 and 4759 of pith/conf.c:

>

> #if !(defined(DOS) || defined(OS2))

>        if(*src == '\\' && *(src+1) == '$'){

>

> I think that second line be

>

>        if(*src == '\\' && *(src+2) == '$'){

>

> When it is, I can use

>

> ldap-servers=host.com:port "/base=dc=host,dc=com/binddn=dom\\\${USER}"

>

> and get the correct expansion.

>

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