Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

hyc@symas.com writes:

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Why are you reporting this? "-h" has always been documented to only accept a hostname,

No. Look at man ldap_init: (...) each host may optionally by of the form host:port. If present, the :port overrides the port parameter (...)

So sometimes this option is called hostport.

It's been that way since umich ldap 3.2.

Perhaps so, but... clients/tools/common.c: 1.1 (hallvard 12-Dec-02): if( ( ldaphost != NULL || ldapport ) && ( ldapuri == NULL ) ) { 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): /* construct URL */ 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): LDAPURLDesc url; 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): memset( &url, 0, sizeof(url)); 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): url.lud_scheme = "ldap"; 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): url.lud_host = ldaphost; 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): url.lud_port = ldapport; 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): url.lud_scope = LDAP_SCOPE_DEFAULT; 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): 1.26 (kurt 14-Dec-03): ldapuri = ldap_url_desc2str( &url );

OpenLDAP has been this way since at least 2003, no one else has cared since then...