Re: -W not working anymore

[ramana.ramachandran@wcom.com]

Jason Bodnar wrote:
> 
> I haven't touched my ldap project for a while but finally got back to it today.
> In the past I used -W to be prompted for a password but it's not working
> anymore. Am I crazy or am I just doing something wrong. I was using 1.2.3 but
> upgraded to 1.2.6 to make sure that wasn't the problem. The man page says -W
> prompts for the password.
> 
> bash-2.01$ ldapsearch -W -D 'cn=root, o=Tivoli Systems' 'cn=Jason Bodnar'
> ldapsearch: illegal option -- W
[...]

ldapsearch does not support -W option (others like ldapadd,... does)
ramana
PS:When I asked earlier, Kurt said...


-W support needs to be added to ldapsearch (it's implemented in -devel).
Feel free to submit an ITS (preferrably with a patch)...

Kurt