Re: (ITS#3623) hexadecimal representation of attribute value in DN

[ando@sys-net.it]

> Full_Name: Janusz Grabowski
> Version: 2.2.24
> OS: Debian Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.110.121.9)
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have problems with using hexadecimal representation of attribute value
> in DN.
> According to RFC 2253 attribute value should be represented as '#'
> character
> followed by hexadecimal representation of each of the bytes of the BER
> encoding
> of the X.500  AttributeValue.
>
> But it seams that the server doesn't decode attributevalue.
> Following is a snip from slapd output in debug mode.
> (This is search with base set to 2.5.4.5=#13057465737431,o=test -
> alternate
> representation of serialNumber=test1,o=test)

Yes, it is a known limitation of the current DN parsing routines.

p.

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