Re: why is userPassword transferred binary?

thanks. this is exactly the answer I needed.

Best regards, Jephté CLAIN

2015-06-14 2:13 GMT+04:00 Ryan Tandy ryan@nardis.ca:

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 01:27:28AM +0400, Jephte Clain wrote:

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What I wanted to know is whether the decision to encode in base64 is done by the client or the server returning a "binary" flag or something

you said "ldapsearch, always *encode* userPassword value in base64", so I guess this is the client decision to make a special case of userPassword, right?

Correct. By default only userPassword receives that treatment, but libldap users can add others.

http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;hb=refs/heads/OPENLD...