Full_Name: Chris Paul Version: ldapsearch 2.4.23 (Dec 7 2011 21:37:03) OS: tried both Centos 2.6.32-220.el6.i686 and Cygwin URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (162.119.68.25)

I really like the new -y option to read the password from a file but it doesn't work. Also it broke the old behavior which read it from standard input if you used -W.

I have a one line password file. I used to use this successfully with a command like:

$ ldapsearch -x -H $TIM -s sub -b "dc=myorg, dc=org" "(uid=someuid)" uid cn < ~/.ldappw

Now this command just prompts me for the password.

And when I try -y, it seems that an 0x0a character is added to the password string (I found this by using tcpdump to capture the packets), so that fails with "Invalid credentials (49)".

This is a common user error. The "0x0a" is a newline ('\n') which is probably present in your file. You need to create a file that contains exactly the password. For example, to create a file that contains the password "secret" you need to do

echo -n "secret" > filename.

This ITS will be closed.

p.