[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1985317 ] check_ldap fails to report actual LDAP errors

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Bugs item #1985317, was opened at 2008-06-05 12:47
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jan Wagner (cyco_dd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: check_ldap fails to report actual LDAP errors

Initial Comment:
The following Bugreport we got against our debian package:

The check_ldap plugin does this:

% /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ldap -H '<validip>' -b '<validdn>'
Could not bind to the ldap-server

Whereas, tethereal reveals that the message received was:

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
    LDAP Message, Bind Result
        Message Id: 1
        Message Type: Bind Result (0x01)
        Message Length: 64
        Response To: 4
        Time: 0.000067000 seconds
        Result Code: protocolError (0x02)
        Matched DN: (null)
        Error Message: historical protocol version requested, use LDAPv3 instead

Now, why didn't check_ldap communicate that? Because it has this
in the code (plugins/check_ldap.c):

        /* bind to the ldap server */
        if (ldap_bind_s (ld, ld_binddn, ld_passwd, LDAP_AUTH_SIMPLE) !=
                        LDAP_SUCCESS) {                                
                /*ldap_perror(ld, "ldap_bind"); */
                printf (_("Could not bind to the ldap-server\n"));
                return STATE_CRITICAL;
        }

How hard was it to put that ldap_perror() string in the printf'ed
error message? :(

A quick grep for ldap_perror shows that there are other occurences of the
same problem in the same file.


You can track the bugreport via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425137

Thanks and kind regards, Jan.

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