Re: Character rejection '#'

["Pierangelo Masarati" <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

nathaneal gaggiano writes: 

> It fails as soon as it gets to the dn: cn=#

you should consider taking a look at rfc 2256,
significantly to the section taht lists the
characters that need escape in DNs (especially
those that need escape only when they come first). 

Pierangelo. 

> Then it kicks it out and says illegal attributetype: ##3COMSI. 
>
> dn: cn=#3COMSI,ou=Customers, o=kwe.com
> mailhost: 0 uxe450b.kwe.com
> mail: #3COMSI@kwe.com
> mgrprfc822mailmember: 3COMS1@kwe.com
> mgrprfc822mailmember: 3COMS2@kwe.com
> mgrprfc822mailmember: 3COMS3@kwe.com
> mgrprfc822mailmember: 3COMS4@kwe.com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: groupOfUniqueNames
> objectclass: mailGroup
> mgrperrorsto: postmaster@kwe.com
> cn: #3COMSI 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hallvard B Furuseth [mailto:h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no]
> Sent: 10 July 2002 12:10
> To: nathaneal gaggiano
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: Character rejection '#' 
>
>
> nathaneal gaggiano writes:
> > When importing or replicating with each other it falls over due to the
> fact
> > that Netscape allows the character #3COMSI where as OpenLDAP does not
> allow
> > the '#' character to be used in the LDAP definitions.
>
> Could you show exactly an entry which fails?  Do you mean you have 
>
> mail: #nathaneal.gaggiano@kwe.com 
>
> in LDIF? 
>
> --
> Hallvard 



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