On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Pörschke, Gunnar wrote:
With my ldap client, JXplore, I import a subtree and get this error message:
[LDAP: error code 21 - postalAddress: value #0 invalid per syntax]; remaining name 'uid=reskes@circa,ou=Users,ou=DATA,ou=fis-vl.bund.de,o=IRCusers,l=CIRCA'
The import job fails (same result with slapadd).
This are the data: postalAddress:: TmllZGVyc+RjaHNpc2NoZXMgTGFuZGVzYW10IGb8ciBWZXJicmF1Y2hlcnNj aHV0eiB1bmQgTGViZW5zbWl0dGVsc2ljaGVyaGVpdCwgRGV6ZXJuYXQgMjMsIFBvc3RmYWNoIDM 5NDksIDI2MDI5IE9sZGVuYnVyZw==
RFC 4517 defines the Postal Address syntax as requiring the value to encoded in valid UTF-8, but that value appears to be encoded in some ISO-8851 variant. You'll need to reencode the value...and then verify that any applications reading that value handle it correctly.
Philip Guenther