[RADIATOR] Seeking clarification on AuthBy LDAP2 PostSearchHook

Andrew D. Clark adc at umn.edu
Sat Dec 18 10:13:21 CST 2010


Thanks for the clarification.  That's what I needed to know.  

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Andrew Clark

On Friday, December 17, 2010 03:41:12 pm Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> On 12/17/2010 11:06 PM, Andrew Clark wrote:
> > I've just got a simple question about a PostSearchHook when an AuthBy
> > LDAP2 experiences a server timeout.  I know that AuthBy will return an
> > IGNORE, but is the PostSearchHook skipped or does it still execute?
> 
> It does not execute. When the search terminates due to a timeout, you
> should see something like this in the log:
> 
> ERR, "ldap search for $filter failed with error LDAP Timeout.
> ERR, "Disconnecting from LDAP server (server $server:$port)
> 
> After the disconnect ERR, the search returns and the hook is not run.
> 
> In other words: the hook is only run if the results were received
> without an error. MaxRecords controls how many results are examined, if
> there are multiple results, and the hook runs for each result.
> 
> Does this sound like what you were expecting?
> 
> Thanks!


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