In a recent assessment, a multi-line account description was being returned as a list. This broke the generateGrepList method that was attempting to join the account attributes. The root of the issue appears to be that formatString does not guarantee that all returned values will be str. I refactored formatString:
always return a str value
use isinstance for type checks
simplified the return path to a single statement
added formatString handling of list values with a ', '.join (this could potentially clash with self.config.grepsplitchar)
Copy of stack trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ldapdomaindump", line 3, in <module>
ldapdomaindump.main()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ldapdomaindump/__init__.py", line 944, in main
dd.domainDump()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ldapdomaindump/__init__.py", line 422, in domainDump
rw.generateUsersReport(self)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ldapdomaindump/__init__.py", line 797, in generateUsersReport
grepout = self.generateGrepList(dd.users, self.userattributes)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ldapdomaindump/__init__.py", line 735, in generateGrepList
out.append(self.config.grepsplitchar.join(eo))
TypeError: sequence item 11: expected str instance, list found
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description: description line one
description line two
description line three
displayName: Redacted User
[snip]
entry['description']
description: description line one
description line two
description line three
self.formatGrepAttribute(entry['description'])
['description line one', 'description line two', 'description line three']
[type(val) for val in eo]
[<class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'list'>]
In a recent assessment, a multi-line account description was being returned as a
list
. This broke thegenerateGrepList
method that was attempting tojoin
the account attributes. The root of the issue appears to be thatformatString
does not guarantee that all returned values will bestr
. I refactoredformatString
:str
valueisinstance
for type checksformatString
handling oflist
values with a', '.join
(this could potentially clash withself.config.grepsplitchar
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