introduced LdapUserDirError exception

instead of returning an empty string for a systemuser2dn lookup, now a
LdapUserDirError is returned.

bin/ldapuserdir-ctl

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
 import logging
-from ldapuserdir import LdapUserDir, __version__ as libversion
+from ldapuserdir import LdapUserDir, __version__ as libversion, LdapUserDirError
 import ldap
 import sys
 import os
@@ -312,8 +312,12 @@ try:
     elif mode == 'userlist':
             l.list_users_etcpwd(userfilter, verbose = flag_verbose)
     elif mode == 'user_to_group':
-        sys.stdout.write("\n".join(l.get_groups_for_user(user_to_group))
-                         + "\n")
+        try:
+            sys.stdout.write("\n".join(l.get_groups_for_user(user_to_group))
+                             + "\n")
+        except LdapUserDirError, err:
+            sys.stderr.write('Error: ' + str(err) +'\n')
+            sys.exit(1)
     elif mode == 'add':
         l.add_groupmembers(group, usernames)
     elif mode == 'del':
@@ -323,8 +327,8 @@ except ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS, e:
 except ldap.LDAPError, e:
     sys.stderr.write('Unhandled LDAP error: %s\n' % str(e)) 
     sys.exit(1)
-except:
-    sys.stderr.write('Unhandled Exception!!!!!!!!\n')
-    raise
-
+except Exception, err:
+    sys.stderr.write('Unhandled Exception (%s): %s\n' % (type(err), str(err)))
+    sys.exit(1)
+    
 sys.exit(0)

ldapuserdir/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-from ldapuserdir import LdapUserDir
+from ldapuserdir import LdapUserDir, LdapUserDirError
 from version import __version__

ldapuserdir/ldapuserdir.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import re
 import logging
+import time
 
 ##############################################################
 # definitions of the search strings
@@ -35,6 +36,11 @@ searches_nomssfu= dict({
 'get_groups_for_user' : '(&(objectClass=Group)(cn=%s)(member=%s))'})
 ##############################################################
 
+class LdapUserDirError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, errmsg):
+        super(LdapUserDirError, self).__init__(errmsg)
+
+
 class LdapUserDir(object):
     """ A class to interact with a LDAP based user and group directory
     """
@@ -111,6 +117,7 @@ class LdapUserDir(object):
                     self._ldap = ldap.initialize(self.serverurl, trace_level=0,
                                                  trace_file=sys.stderr)
                 except ldap.SERVER_DOWN:
+                    self.logger.warning("ldap initialization error")
                     time.sleep(1)
                     
                 if attempts >= recon_attempts:
@@ -170,9 +177,9 @@ class LdapUserDir(object):
         """Converts a user's system username to the dn of the ldap directory
         by performing a search on ldap
         @param uname The system username
-        @returns The DN of the user or '' if no matching record was found
+        @returns The DN of the user
 
-        @exception may throw an ldap.LDAPError exception
+        @exception may throw an ldap.LDAPError or LdapUserDir("No such user")
         """
         #try:
         srch = self.searches['systemuser2dn'] % uname
@@ -180,8 +187,10 @@ class LdapUserDir(object):
         r = self.search_s_reconn(self.user_ou, ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, srch)
         #except ldap.LDAPError, e:
         #    print e
+
         if len(r) == 0:
-            return ''
+            raise LdapUserDirError("No such user")
+
         self.logger.debug('systemuser2dn: dn = %s' % r[0][0])
         return r[0][0]