Re: LDAP Authentication with spaces in DN

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Digginginto postgres sources found the problem. File auth.c in
line1376 does some ldap configuration parse using sscanf with the mask “ldap://%127[^:]:%d/%127[^;];%127[^;];%127s”.
Thesscanf function reads until it finds a blank space, tab or new line, so if the string contains any blank space after
thelast ‘:’ everything else is ignored! </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontcolor="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PS:I’m using postgres 8.3.0 </span></font></div>