r18910: Change ldb_msg_add_string() to not actually add an attribute if the

string is zero length. This allows callers to not have to worry about
creating an invalid ldap attribute.

See extensive discussion on samba-technical list :-)
(This used to be commit 9e66df05a4df3d3c7b02048d80e2661103d1d40a)

source3/lib/ldb/common/ldb_msg.c

@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ int ldb_msg_add_string(struct ldb_message *msg,
 	val.data = discard_const_p(uint8_t, str);
 	val.length = strlen(str);
 
+	if (val.length == 0) {
+		/* allow empty strings as non-existant attributes */
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	return ldb_msg_add_value(msg, attr_name, &val);
 }