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
