You may try this instead: postalAddress:: TmllZGVyc8OkY2hzaXNjaGVzIExhbmRlc2FtdCBmw7xyIFZlcmJyYXVjaGVyc2No dXR6IHVuZCBMZWJlbnNtaXR0ZWxzaWNoZXJoZWl0LCBEZXplcm5hdCAyMywgUG9z dGZhY2ggMzk0OSwgMjYwMjkgT2xkZW5idXJn
This is UTF-8 encoded (required by RFC4519+RFC4517). 2012/11/2 Pörschke, Gunnar <gunnar.poersc...@bvl.bund.de>: > With my ldap client, JXplore, I import a subtree and get this error message: > > [LDAP: error code 21 - postalAddress: value #0 invalid per syntax]; > remaining name > 'uid=reskes@circa,ou=Users,ou=DATA,ou=fis-vl.bund.de,o=IRCusers,l=CIRCA' > > The import job fails (same result with slapadd). > > This are the data: > postalAddress:: TmllZGVyc+RjaHNpc2NoZXMgTGFuZGVzYW10IGb8ciBWZXJicmF1Y2hlcnNj > aHV0eiB1bmQgTGViZW5zbWl0dGVsc2ljaGVyaGVpdCwgRGV6ZXJuYXQgMjMsIFBvc3RmYWNoIDM > 5NDksIDI2MDI5IE9sZGVuYnVyZw== > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Pörschke, Gunnar > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. November 2012 13:51 > An: 'openldap-technical@openldap.org' > Betreff: openldap 2.2.x > > Hi all, > > we have an very old openldap running and we need to migrate data to latest > openldap version. I create an ldif but the data in that file are encoded > "base64". Is there a trick to disable that? My plan is to export everything > from openldap 2.2 database (lbdb) without base64 encoding so I can easily > use slapadd to add this data to a database on my new openldap 2.4.2x system > > Thank you for any idea. > > Gunnar -- Erwann.