Hello.

Since I have been working on a Chinese language based directory the ldapsearch tool was difficult for me to use, the result is always not readable.

This is because if an attribute value contain Chinese, it's automatically displayed using base64. I had to copy & paste the result to 'base64 -d' to read every result, which kills my efficiency. I had to switch to a GUI ldapbrower, which kills my efficiency more because I cannot store most of my frequent queries and call them back as easily would be done on console with readline support.

Is there a way to use ldapsearch and disable using base64 for non-ascii characters? I searched into the manual without a clue.

Example of un-readable output:

zhangweiwu@esmeralda:~$ ldapsearch -H ldap://gtz.ods.org -D uid=admin,st=jiangxi,o=LGOP -x -w secret -b st=jiangxi,o=LGOP '(pwdFailureTime=*)' pwdFailureTime pwdAccountLockedTime # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <st=jiangxi,o=LGOP> with scope subtree # filter: (pwdFailureTime=*) # requesting: pwdFailureTime pwdAccountLockedTime #

# \E5\90\89\E5\AE\89\E5\B8\82, jiangxi, LGOP dn:: b3U95ZCJ5a6J5biCLHN0PWppYW5neGksbz1MR09Q pwdFailureTime: 20080513080747Z

# \E4\B9\9D\E6\B1\9F\E5\B8\82, jiangxi, LGOP dn:: b3U95Lmd5rGf5biCLHN0PWppYW5neGksbz1MR09Q pwdFailureTime: 20080612200319Z pwdFailureTime: 20080612200326Z

# \E5\8D\97\E6\98\8C\E5\B8\82, jiangxi, LGOP dn:: b3U95Y2X5piM5biCLHN0PWppYW5neGksbz1MR09Q pwdFailureTime: 20080726054305Z pwdFailureTime: 20080726054306Z

# \E6\96\B0\E4\BD\99\E5\B8\82\E5\88\86\E5\AE\9C\E5\8E\BF, jiangxi, LGOP dn:: b3U95paw5L2Z5biC5YiG5a6c5Y6/LHN0PWppYW5neGksbz1MR09Q pwdFailureTime: 20080613022146Z

# search result search: 2 result: 0 Success

# numResponses: 5 # numEntries: 4