Bug 9299

Summary: for loop in Auth_with_ldap.pm requires an extended patron attribute to be set or LDAP logins fail
Product: Koha Reporter: Bryan Lakatos <bryan.lakatos>
Component: Architecture, internals, and plumbingAssignee: Nuño López Ansótegui <nunyo.lopez>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart>
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: dpavlin, gmcharlt, jonathan.druart, katrin.fischer, nunyo.lopez, robin, srdjan, tomascohen
Version: 3.12   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10925
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Attachments: bug_9299: rework unique attributes check on ldap login
[SIGNED-OFF] bug_9299: rework unique attributes check on ldap login
Bug 9299: rework unique attributes check on ldap login

Description Bryan Lakatos 2012-12-17 22:17:24 UTC
If ExtendedPatronAttributes is enabled but no extended attributes are defined, then the for loop starting on line 181 of Auth_with_ldap.pm causes the array mentioned there to be undefined. This causes an error which prohibits LDAP logins:

(the error returned is)
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth_with_ldap.pm line 181, <DATA> line 522.

Disabling ExtendedPatronAttributes gets around the problem, but the loop ought to be made to do nothing if there are no attributes configured/defined.

The offending loop:

                for (my $i; $i< scalar(@$extended_patron_attributes)-1;$i++) {
                        my $attr=$extended_patron_attributes->[$i];
                        unless (C4::Members::Attributes::CheckUniqueness($attr->{code}, $attr->{value}, $borrowernumber)) {
                                unshift @errors, $i;
                                warn "ERROR_extended_unique_id_failed $attr->{code} $attr->{value}";
                        }
Comment 1 Robin Sheat 2013-05-29 22:27:42 UTC
I've seen this happen when extended attributes are defined, but it's definitely a problem. It might be when none are assigned to the user, or something like that.
Comment 2 Srdjan Jankovic 2013-06-05 04:37:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Srdjan Jankovic 2013-06-05 04:41:07 UTC
To test:

Have ldap server set up in koha-conf.xml and  ExtendedPatronAttributes syspref enabled, with no extended attributes defined.
Successful login should not throw an exception.
Comment 4 Nuño López Ansótegui 2013-07-23 08:06:14 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Bryan Lakatos 2013-09-19 18:52:07 UTC
I verify that the submitted fix works. Can we move this on down the line into the package? Thanks!
Comment 6 Jonathan Druart 2013-09-20 15:07:45 UTC
Created attachment 21279 [details] [review]
Bug 9299: rework unique attributes check on ldap login

commit 73e89ab1bf24e8b43560ac0218ac0144d81985df
Author: Srdjan <srdjan@catalyst.net.nz>
Date:   Wed Jun 5 16:34:29 2013 +1200

    Bug 9299: rework unique attributes check on ldap login
    
    To reproduce:
    - configure a ldap server and $KOHA_CONF, etc.
    - try to log in
    - you will got a software error:
    Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
    /home/koha/src/C4/Auth_with_ldap.pm line 183.
    
    Signed-off-by: Nuño López Ansótegui <nunyo@masmedios.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com>
Comment 7 Jonathan Druart 2013-09-20 15:08:25 UTC
I reproduce the issue and I configure this patch fixes it.
Marked as Passed QA.
Comment 8 Jonathan Druart 2013-09-20 15:08:40 UTC
s/configure/confirm...
Comment 9 Galen Charlton 2013-09-27 16:23:35 UTC
Pushed to master.  Thanks, Srdjan!
Comment 10 Katrin Fischer 2013-11-05 09:42:10 UTC
I think we have run into this problem in 3.12 - maybe a candidate for a backport? Not sure if there are dependencies on other features in master.
Comment 11 Robin Sheat 2013-11-05 20:01:28 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #10)
> I think we have run into this problem in 3.12 - maybe a candidate for a
> backport? Not sure if there are dependencies on other features in master.

It is a problem on 3.12, I'll change the version setting to indicate that.
Comment 12 Tomás Cohen Arazi 2013-11-13 17:32:43 UTC
This patch has been pushed to 3.12.x, will be in 3.12.7.

Thanks Srdjan!