Re^5: Need help on Net::LDAP


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Re^5: Need help on Net::LDAP

by ghenry (Vicar)

on May 05, 2008 at 12:57 UTC ( [id://684630]=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

in reply to Re^4: Need help on Net::LDAP
in thread Need help on Net::LDAP

It actually comes from rfc2849:

The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification:

      4)  Any dn or rdn that contains characters other than those
          defined as "SAFE-UTF8-CHAR", or begins with a character other
          than those defined as "SAFE-INIT-UTF8-CHAR", above, MUST be
          base-64 encoded.  Other values MAY be base-64 encoded.  Any
          value that contains characters other than those defined as
          "SAFE-CHAR", or begins with a character other than those
          defined as "SAFE-INIT-CHAR", above, MUST be base-64 encoded.
          Other values MAY be base-64 encoded.

So since we have

{crypt}

the

triggers the base64 encoding if you slapcat the Directory data out into LDIF. it has nothing to do with whom or what added the {crypt} data to the directory in the first place.

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