Hi Angel, you might want to post feature requests (after double checking that the feature does not already exists) to the ITS (http://www.openldap.org/its/). This list is, as Howard made quite clear, not the right place.
Technical discussions can be made on openldap-technical. Although it is far better to use proper LDAP libraries of a proper scripting language, I second your request for a don't base64 feature for all those admins who only use bash and pray instead of learning python or perl ;-) But we should first discuss (on openldap-technical) how exactly such a feature should work (there are binary values that you don't want to have not base64ed). And: it is even nicer to post a proper patch than a feature request to ITS Cheers, Peter Am 23.07.2012 00:36, schrieb Angel Bosch: >> De: "Howard Chu" <[email protected]> >> This is the Developer's list. Your post is off topic and you should be >> ashamed >> of yourself for posting it here. >> > sorry for the noise, I knew this is the developer's list but after seeing all > lists: > > openldap-announce OpenLDAP announcements list > openldap-bugs OpenLDAP bugs discussion list > openldap-commit OpenLDAP source repository 'commit' list > openldap-devel OpenLDAP development discussion list > openldap-fortress OpenLDAP Fortress Discussion list > openldap-technical OpenLDAP Technical Discussion list > > > I thought this belongs here because the nature of the discussion. If you want > me to move this thread to another list, please let me know. > > > >> An option for LDIF wrapping was released in 2.4.24, 2011-02-10. You >> should be >> ashamed of yourself for asking for something that has already been >> available >> for over a year and a half. >> > I was using lastest Centos 6.3 packages and I assumed that there was no > wrapping option, sorry about that. I see now that Centos is packaging 2.4.23. > That was close. I'm really happy to see that it was finally included upstream > and I can't wait to see it on packages. > > > I think rest of the complain is still valid, though. Decoding values i still > an issue, and the suggestion of Michael that best way is learning other > languages instead of using ldapsearch reaffirms my pov. How broken can be a > simple search such as > > FULLNAME=`ldapsearch -x -LLL "(uid=$1)" gecos | grep "^gecos: " | cut -d" > " -f2- ` > > ? > > > I really thought that we could start a healthy discussion about what and when > a widely requested feature should be included. And judging from amount of > posts/discussions I've found digging last weeks I'm pretty sure that isn't > the opinion of a single undocumented obtuse sysadmin. > > Instead of being double-ashamed because of my ignorance, I'm really proud of > being part of the free software community and being able to address to people > I admire and respect profundly. Even when I'm wrong and even more when I > hardly find the right words to explain my boss that this "creppy guy with a > violin" is the main developer of this huge project. > > > àngel > > > ps: english is not my native language, excuse my strange composition > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Gietz (CEO) DAASI International GmbH phone: +49 7071 407109-0 Europaplatz 3 Fax: +49 7071 407109-9 D-72072 Tübingen mail: [email protected] Germany Web: www.daasi.de DAASI International GmbH, Tübingen Geschäftsführer Peter Gietz, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 382175 Directory Applications for Advanced Security and Information Management _______________________________________________________________________
