On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:33:45AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Accidently, when i did a simple "ldapsearch" on the server i noticed that the 
> automountInfromation entry was:
> 
>       automountInformation:: Oi9kZXYvaGRhMQ==
> 
> This is because the entry starts with a colon and is therefore represented in 
> base64 notation. You normally don't run into this problem since usually the 
> entry starts with "-fstype=...", but i left it out because i suspected problems 
> with it. After putting "-fstype=auto" in front of it, all was fine:-)
> 
> I don't know if this behaviour is a bug or a feature, but I would definitely 
> prefer an error message over a frozen machine!

The base64 encoding is performed for you by ldapsearch -- the
LDAP lookup module actually gets ":/dev/hda1" as the value for
the attribute, so it doesn't need to decode the result.

Sorry, but I think the problem you experienced lies elsewhere.

Nalin

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