in reply to Re^4: LDAP Authentication
in thread LDAP Authentication

Then it seems likely that the shell is interpreting those characters rather than passing them to ldapsearch. This really would be very much easier and more secure with Net::LDAP - is there a reason why you can't use the module?

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