Re: (ITS#7242) new -y (Read password from file) does not work

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> Full_Name: Chris Paul
> Version: ldapsearch 2.4.23 (Dec  7 2011 21:37:03)
> OS: tried both Centos 2.6.32-220.el6.i686 and Cygwin
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (162.119.68.25)
>
>
> I really like the new -y option to read the password from a file but it
> doesn't
> work. Also it broke the old behavior which read it from standard input if
> you
> used -W.
>
> I have a one line password file. I used to use this successfully with a
> command
> like:
>
> $ ldapsearch -x -H $TIM -s sub -b "dc=myorg, dc=org" "(uid=someuid)"  uid
> cn <
> ~/.ldappw
>
> Now this command just prompts me for the password.
>
> And when I try -y, it seems that an 0x0a character is added to the
> password
> string (I found this by using tcpdump to capture the packets), so that
> fails
> with "Invalid credentials (49)".

This is a common user error.  The "0x0a" is a newline ('\n') which is
probably present in your file.  You need to create a file that contains
exactly the password.  For example, to create a file that contains the
password "secret" you need to do

echo -n "secret" > filename.

This ITS will be closed.

p.