alternate fix to ITS#3916

[openldap] / servers / slapd / slapacl.c

diff --git a/servers/slapd/slapacl.c b/servers/slapd/slapacl.c
index d70c709c0066541b902f65ff6d53cbb89e6b50b8..925127d0570a05b99c53f33b62b4e455459785a7 100644 (file)
--- a/servers/slapd/slapacl.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/slapacl.c
@@ -222,9 +222,18 @@ slapacl( int argc, char **argv )
                op->o_bd = frontendDB;
        }
 
-       if ( !dryrun && be ) {
+       if ( !dryrun ) {
                ID      id;
 
+               if ( be == NULL ) {
+                       fprintf( stderr, "%s: no target database "
+                               "has been found for baseDN=\"%s\"; "
+                               "you may try with \"-u\" (dry run).\n",
+                               baseDN.bv_val, progname );
+                       rc = 1;
+                       goto destroy;
+               }
+
                if ( !be->be_entry_open ||
                        !be->be_entry_close ||
                        !be->be_dn2id_get ||