[Fedora-directory-users] LdapSearch Field Length

[Mike Jackson]

Jim Summers wrote:
> 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.

Line wrapping is defined in the LDIF RFC (2849); this is not a bug, it's 
a feature. You can get around it when writing a script with e.g. 
perl-ldap (Net::LDAP).


BR,
Mike


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