Am 15.02.2011 08:04, schrieb MJ Hughes: > Hi, > > > I'm an LDAP newbie who has inherited the maintenance of an LDAP system, and > am learning on the fly. Until now I've been able to puzzle out all the > issues I've faced, but finally my google fu has failed me, so I'm seeking > more human assistance. > > > My problem is with reserved characters, such as , (comma). The system > wasn't coping with RDNs that contained these characters, but this was easy > enough to fix by simply escaping these characters with a backslash. > > > My problem now involves trying to alias entries that contain these escaped > characters - I am consistently getting "Invalid DN syntax". This is what > the code to add the alias looks like: > > > > $operationDN = "aliasedObjectName=" . $this->aliasSafe($aliasDN) . "," . > $locDN; > > $aliasParameterArray = array( > > "objectClass" => "alias", > > "aliasedObjectName" => $aliasDN > > ); > > $result = ldap_add($this->LDAPcon, $operationDN, $aliasParameterArray); > > > > The aliasSafe() function converts "=" => "\3D" and "," => "\," (unless the > commas have already been escaped). > > > This produces DNs that have the following (hypothetical) format: > > > > $aliasDN: cn=Tomorrow\, When The War Began,cn=books,dc=library,dc=com > > > $operationDN: cn\3DTomorrow\, When The War > Began\,cn\3Dbooks\,dc\3Dlibrary\,dc\3Dcom,cn=titles,cn=John > Marsden,cn=authors,dc=library,dc=com > > > > I've tried every encoding of the comma (in the book name) that I can think > of (eg, a single backslash, a double backslash, a triple backslash, and even > '\2C') but everything I've tried so far has given me the "Invalid DN syntax" > error. Could someone please help me with the syntax and encoding these DNs > should have? > > > Thanks, > > MJ >
Hi, have a look at RFC 1485 section 2.2: <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1485.html> Double quotes around the RDN will solve your problem. Regards, Christian Manal
