Re: What's the difference between -h and -H ?

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

Harry Rüter writes: 

> Hi, 
>
> i read the manpages of ldapwhoami (v2.1.4),
> but i don't know what's the "real" difference 
> between the -h and the -H option. 
>
> I show you, what makes me ask this question : 
>
> ---snipp---
> 486dx66:~ # /usr/local/ldap/bin/ldapwhoami -h 486dx66.hrnet.de -p 5389
> SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
> SASL username: harry@HRNET.DE
> SASL SSF: 56
> SASL installing layers
> dn:uid=harry,cn=hrnet.de,ou=ldap,o=myorganization,dc=hrnet,dc=de
> Result: Success (0)
> ---snipp--- 
>
> You see, it works fine, but -h is deprecated. 
>
> Now, the other way : 
>
> ---snipp---
> 486dx66:~ # /usr/local/ldap/bin/ldapwhoami -H ldap://486dx66.hrnet.de -p 5389
> SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
> SASL username: harry@HRNET.DE
> SASL SSF: 56
> SASL installing layers
> Result: Protocol error (2)
> Additional info: unsupported extended operation
> ---snipp--- 
>
> This doesn't work,
> looking to the logfile of the server i see,
> there's no connection, the error must be in ldapwhoami .. 
>
> Any suggestions to this behaviour ?

try -H ldap://host:port/ instead of adding -p port (which is ignored ...) 

Pierangelo 

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