Hi Angel,

you might want to post feature requests (after double checking that the feature does not already exists) to the ITS (http://www.openldap.org/its/). This list is, as Howard made quite clear, not the right place.

Technical discussions can be made on openldap-technical.

Although it is far better to use proper LDAP libraries of a proper scripting language, I second your request for a don't base64 feature for all those admins who only use bash and pray instead of learning python or perl ;-)

But we should first discuss (on openldap-technical) how exactly such a feature should work (there are binary values that you don't want to have not base64ed).

And: it is even nicer to post a proper patch than a feature request to ITS

Cheers,

Peter

Am 23.07.2012 00:36, schrieb Angel Bosch:

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De: "Howard Chu" hyc@symas.com This is the Developer's list. Your post is off topic and you should be ashamed of yourself for posting it here.

sorry for the noise, I knew this is the developer's list but after seeing all lists:

openldap-announce OpenLDAP announcements list openldap-bugs OpenLDAP bugs discussion list openldap-commit OpenLDAP source repository 'commit' list openldap-devel OpenLDAP development discussion list openldap-fortress OpenLDAP Fortress Discussion list openldap-technical OpenLDAP Technical Discussion list

I thought this belongs here because the nature of the discussion. If you want me to move this thread to another list, please let me know.

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An option for LDIF wrapping was released in 2.4.24, 2011-02-10. You should be ashamed of yourself for asking for something that has already been available for over a year and a half.

I was using lastest Centos 6.3 packages and I assumed that there was no wrapping option, sorry about that. I see now that Centos is packaging 2.4.23. That was close. I'm really happy to see that it was finally included upstream and I can't wait to see it on packages.

I think rest of the complain is still valid, though. Decoding values i still an issue, and the suggestion of Michael that best way is learning other languages instead of using ldapsearch reaffirms my pov. How broken can be a simple search such as

FULLNAME=`ldapsearch -x -LLL "(uid=$1)" gecos | grep "^gecos: " | cut -d" " -f2- `

?

I really thought that we could start a healthy discussion about what and when a widely requested feature should be included. And judging from amount of posts/discussions I've found digging last weeks I'm pretty sure that isn't the opinion of a single undocumented obtuse sysadmin.

Instead of being double-ashamed because of my ignorance, I'm really proud of being part of the free software community and being able to address to people I admire and respect profundly. Even when I'm wrong and even more when I hardly find the right words to explain my boss that this "creppy guy with a violin" is the main developer of this huge project.

àngel

ps: english is not my native language, excuse my strange composition