Re: [Evolution] LDAP, LDIF, and WTF? :)

[Jason Kohles <jkohles redhat com>]

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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Jason Kohles                                 jkohles redhat com
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