On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 15:56, Brian wrote: > For grins & giggles, I've been teaching myself the basics of LDAP. I've > got ldapadd, ldapsearch, and ldapdelete down and have my rudimentary > skills in place. I decided to create a contact in evolution then do an > ldapsearch to see what schema was associated with which record in the > 'contact editor'. Everything made sense till I ran across this: > > homePostalAddress:: MTMxMyBNb2NraW5nYmlyZCBMbgpKYWNrc29uLCBNUyAzOTEzMA== > > This looks nothing like what I entered into the contact editor, yet if I > delete the record, and add it back (importing the info from the > ldapsearch as an ldif file) this gobbledygook transforms itself into the > address I entered originally. > > What I want to know is what causes this? Is it normal? And how do I add > a contact's address with ldapadd that evolution will see properly? > Your address probably contained a character that ldap thought was not safe to store directly, what you are seeing here isn't technically gobbledygook =), but is what you entered, encoded as base64...
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