quanah@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount Version: RE24/HEAD OS: NA URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (75.111.29.239)
As noted in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334354 the OpenLDAP ldapdelete utility cannot handle base-64 encoded DNs, even though the other ldap* tools can. It would add to the tool consistency for ldapdelete to conform with the other tools in this respect.
Why are you bothering to report this now, when the original bug was filed in 2005 and went unanswered until last month?
I agree with Peter Marschall's response - this is not a bug, and your assertion "other ldap* tools can" is false.
ldapdelete is documented to take a list of DNs. It does *NOT* say that it takes them in LDIF format, and LDIF is the only relevant format specification that uses base64. As such, "DN" should only be taken to mean RFC4514 compliant strings.
The only tool that accepts LDIF is ldapmodify (and ldapadd is just a symlink to ldapmodify). All of the other tools are specifically documented to take DNs, not LDIF.
This ITS will be closed.