Try to reconnect to the LDAP server for longer than 30 seconds

When the LDAP server reboots or restarts for any reason, we were
only trying to reconnect for 30 seconds. Obviously a reboot could
take longer. Therefore this patch basically tries to reconnect
for forever.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>

diff --git a/src/backend/accounts.py b/src/backend/accounts.py
index e3405cdae97fcfed3aa7b9121d8aecb0caa5ece3..584a865823c83eacd95279e06c76a1c3dbcae2b8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/accounts.py
+++ b/src/backend/accounts.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import phonenumbers
 import re
+import sys
 import time
 import tornado.httpclient
 import urllib.parse
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ class Accounts(Object):
                # Connect to the LDAP server
                connection = ldap.ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject(ldap_uri,
                        trace_level=2 if self.backend.debug else 0,
-                       retry_max=10, retry_delay=3)
+                       retry_max=sys.maxsize, retry_delay=3)
 
                # Set maximum timeout for operations
                connection.set_option(ldap.OPT_TIMEOUT, 10)