rra(a)stanford.edu wrote:

> A Debian user was confused by the -y option and its inclusion of > whitespace in the password. The current man page text does explain > this, but it doesn't make a point of it, and I think a bit more > explanation would be useful. Here's a patch for the ldapcompare.1 man > page; if you think this is a good idea, similar changes could be made > to all the other command-line utilities that take the -y option.

I have committed a different clarification that provides a hint to a portable manner to generate appropriate password files. Please check and improve; afterwards I'll apply it to other command line tools man pages.