Adding entries with RDNs enclosed in quotes may lead to entries with illegal DNs

• Key: DIRSERVER-696
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Invalid
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
• Reporter: Stefan Zoerner
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-RC4

Environment

    * ApacheDS 1.0 RC4 SNAPSHOT
    * Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-b03)
    * Windows XP Professional SP2

Description

Using ApacheDS 1.0 RC4 SNAPSHOT with server.xml unchanged.

If I try to add something like this

dn: ou="Scissors 8<",dc=example,dc=com
ou: "Scissors 8<"
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top

an entry is created like that (quotes missing)

dn: ou=Scissors 8<,dc=example,dc=com
ou: Scissors 8<
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top

This causes a lot of trouble in some tools I use (LDAP Administrator, for instance). I checked the behaviour of IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0 and Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2. They behave different, but both create entries with valid DNs:

Sun:

dn: ou="Scissors 8<",dc=example,dc=com
ou: "Scissors 8<"
ou: Scissors 8<
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

IBM:

dn: ou=Scissors 8\<,dc=example,dc=com
ou: "Scissors 8<"
ou: Scissors 8<
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top

I add an LDIF file with this entry and comparable entries, which cause the same error.