Problem with names that include ","

Christoph Holtermann c.holtermann at gmx.de
Tue Jun 2 13:13:24 CEST 2009


Hello !

Thanks for your reply and that of Marc Balmer.
But I still wonder if it is allowed by LDAP or LDIF-
Specification to have a comma in dn. I also tried it
with "" and Base64, some of which
openldap accepted.

C. Holtermann

Yves Dorfsman schrieb:
> Christoph Holtermann wrote:
>
>   
>> I am working on a filter that makes Thunderbirds LDIF-Output
>> importable to OpenLDAP. It works quite fine except for names
>> that include ",". OpenLDAP dislikes the output that is produced
>> like :
>>
>> dn: cn=Lehmann\, Veronika,dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph
>>     
>
> Escaping characters is used by some LDAP servers, not all of them, but is 
> not conform to LDIF.
>
>   

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