https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10263

Issue ID: 10263 Summary: ldapmodify error messages should be more helpful when dealing with trailing whitespace Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: client tools Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: ondra@mistotebe.net Target Milestone: ---

Often when copy-pasting, a trailing whitespace can sneak in to a modify LDIF (e.g. "delete: attribute \nattribute: ..."), ldapmodify should emit a different message than: "ldapmodify: wrong attributeType at line x" because that is just not helpful.

First off, the line number refers to the one that's usually correct. Emitting an "expecting '%s'" would be a start. Maybe we should even warn/error when an attribute name in a change record contains whitespace, because it's not valid as RFC 2849 grammar only allows ALPHA/DIGIT/'-'/'.'/';' anyway.