Re: Problem about ldap

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 06:26:14PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Hi,
>   This may not be a proper place to ask this. I am using ldap-utils in
> debian sid. When I do search, kind like:
>   $ ldapsearch -x -h ldap-server -d "CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com" -b
> "CN=Magicloud,CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com" -w "A^b3"
>   It failed with error on binding. If I changed Magicloud's password
> to A2b3, then everything is fine.
>   So I guess ^ should be escaped. But I cannot find ^ as a special
> char in LDAP protocol.
>   What should I do?

Maybe it's not LDAP, but Bash that is treating the ^ character
specially.  Try it with single quotes, maybe?  'A^b3'

-Rob