Re: Double escaping \ in regex in slapo-constraint directives in slapd.conf

On 05/03/13 18:26, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

Not a slapo-constraint(5) issue, but a slapd.conf(5) issue. '' is the escape char for slapd.conf(5). If you want a '' to appear in a string, you need to escape it. So

constraint_attribute mail regex ^[^@]+@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*$

passes '^[^@]+@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*$' to the regex parser.

p.

Thank you Pierangelo - as it says, in hindsight, on line 45 of man slapd.conf.

I apologise for my madness! But as slapo-constraint(5) does have slapd.conf examples, it might be a suggestion to explicitly include an extra one with \ escaping noted :)

Cheers,

Tim