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

Noriko Hosoi nhosoi at redhat.com
Thu May 1 16:48:44 UTC 2008


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.


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