LDAP question (Previously no subject)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:52:35 -0700,
  bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> as an example, i tried to use:
> 	ldapsearch -x -h ldap.bu.edu -b "dc=bu,dc=edu" "(sn=tom*)"
> 	(but this generates a ldap_bind: protocol error...

I looked through the man page and tried a couple of things that seemed might
work and found the -P 2 option got this query to work.