resolved: search fails with spaces in search value

[Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>]

I'm not sure exactly what the issue is, but the problem is being cause by
some funky shell expansion of command line args.  I'd stuck an ldapsearch
command in a script like this:


     #!bin/sh
     ldapsearch <other args> $*

I'd then call this script with the ldap search filter as an argument.  As
such, I got the error that I described in my original posting (attached
below).  I've found, however, that if I use ldapsearch directly (not with
this script) then everything works fine!  I've not worked out exactly where
the problem is (something related to quoting), but I at least know that the
OpenLDAP side of things is working correctly.

Thanks to all who replied...

Charles

Charles Owens wrote:

> This is really bugging me.  It could be that I simply have missed
> something w.r.t. proper ldap searchstring syntax.  Hopefully someone can
> put me out of my misery.
>
> Consider this directory entry:
>
> dn: cn=Domain Admins, ou=Accounts, ou=ITS, dc=enc, dc=edu
> member: Administrator,1f4,1
> objectclass: sambaGroup
> ntuid: Domain Admins
> rid: 200
> cn: Domain Admins
>
> Give the proper search base, you'd think that I'd be able to locate this
> with this simple search string:
>
>      '(cn=Domain Admins)'
>
> Instead, I get this error message:
>
>      ldap_search: Bad search filter
>
> Uhhhh... okay... so, then I try this
>
>      '(cn=Domain*Admins)'
>
> Which works just fine!  I have a feeling I'm being a dummy here... any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks,
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>   Charles N. Owens                               Email:  owensc@enc.edu
>                                              http://www.enc.edu/~owensc
>   Network & Systems Administrator
>   Information Technology Services  "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's
>   Eastern Nazarene College         best friend.  Inside of a dog it's
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  Charles N. Owens                               Email:  owensc@enc.edu
                                             http://www.enc.edu/~owensc
  Network & Systems Administrator
  Information Technology Services  "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's
  Eastern Nazarene College         best friend.  Inside of a dog it's
                                   too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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