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Re: ldapsearch with -y option



Angel L. Mateo wrote:
>     Maybe it's a silly question, but I'm going crazy and I don't found the
> solution. I want to use the -y option in a ldapsearch command, so I have write
> my password in a file (plain text file with the password in plain text), then
> I run the
> 
> ldapsearch -y <mypasswordfile> <other options>
> 
>     and I get an invalid credential error. I have checked several times that
> the password is correct. I have debuged the request with wireshark and I have
> checked that the only difference in the bind request is that -y option is
> adding a final 0x0a char to the password.

This is a standard issue when creating the password file with an editor. The
solution is to removing the trailing LF.

Ciao, Michael.

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