Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS: Error in encoding and attribute deletion

[Noriko Hosoi]

Kevin Graham wrote:
>  I am having a very unusual error on FDS version 1.0.3.
>
>
>  When we use ldapsearch to search for certain attributes we are getting
>  results back scrambled.
>
>  Upon further investigation we found that the 'scrambled' entries were
>  the intended entries just base64 encoded.  Normally we'd expect the
>  results back in ascii of course.
>
>  The strange thing is that no matter how many times, and with any client
>  application, trying to fix the attribute results in no change.
>
>  Deleting the attribute will delete it, but when we re-add the attribute,
>  (checked for things like trailing spaces.), the entry will reappear as
>  the base64 entry (with a trailing space when translated back.)
>
>  It just appears 'stuck' and will not change to the intended text.
>
>  Any help or pointers on this would be appreciated.
>
>
>     
Could you double check your data to be added?  This might be happening.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2849.html
RFC 2849 - The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)

8)  Values or distinguished names that end with SPACE SHOULD be base-64 encoded.