[Fedora-directory-users] LdapSearch Field Length

[Jim Summers]

Hello All,

I was modifying the value of an attribute, automountInformation in this 
instance.  The modify works as expected, but when I use ldapsearch to dump the 
  entry containing the new value it seems to truncate it at 78 characters, 
that is (attribute name + attribute value).  The remainder of the value is on 
the next line, which has caused some scripts to not work as expected.

The manpage for ldapsearch did not reveal any clues or switches to get around 
this length limit.  Could it be a server limit?

Interesting also is that db2ldif produces the same behavior.

Ideas on what I could do to get the value retruned back on one line?

STRANGE EXAMPLE OUTPUT:
===============
automountInformation: -rw,actimeo=30,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 fs001:/raid/facst
  aff/faharris
===============

EXPECTED OUTPUT:
===============
automountInformation: -rw,actimeo=30,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 
fs001:/raid/facstaff/faharris
===============

The above examples may not be clear due to email wrapping, but in the first 
one ldapsearch truncates at the "t" and in the second there is not truncating.

TIA
-- 
Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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