Hi,

I'm struggling with a new CentOS6 installation and turns out that mozldap tools 
aren't packaged anymore and all my scripts scream out loud because wraping and 
base64 encoding.

I've been reading lots of old petitions of adding wrapping and encoding, 
testing patches and trying to understand denials.

Without being a (truly) developer the only reason I can understand about not 
implementing this is complexity and lack of time/resources, but seems that some 
devs already sended patches for those modifications.

So I'm really lost: why could be wrong adding a feature that is asked again and 
again and will help lot of sysadmins make their life better?

I know about pipes and string manipulation, but why refusing a non default 
option that don't break anything?

This is specially dramatic for base64 manipulation. mozldap has(had?) a 
parameter (-e) that "minimize base-64 encoding of values", I don't really know 
how does it determines if a value should be decoded or not, but it Just Works! 
In my script-ldap-world i just want to display names, surnames and some 
description with accents (à, è,...) and some catalan letter (ç). And that's the 
reason I use decoding 99.99% of times. No photos, blobs or any other exotic 
embeded object.


So please, I mean PLEASE!

Could you add a non wrapping and a decoding option to ldap tools?


I can't pay my mortage and world if falling down, but I see the light and the 
end of some patches.

abosch





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