Yves Dorfsman wrote: > Christoph Holtermann wrote: > >> I am working on a filter that makes Thunderbirds LDIF-Output >> importable to OpenLDAP. It works quite fine except for names >> that include ",". OpenLDAP dislikes the output that is produced >> like : >> >> dn: cn=Lehmann\, Veronika,dc=Adressbuch,dc=christoph > > Escaping characters is used by some LDAP servers, not all of them, but is > not conform to LDIF.
Yves, that sounds wrong to me. According to RFC 4514 a comma within a RDN value has to either be escaped with \ or converted to hex-escaped value. That's what function ldap.dn.escape_dn_chars() is for. And you can directly use the result in LDIF. Ciao, Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Python-LDAP-dev mailing list Python-LDAP-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-ldap-dev
