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Re: (ITS#6701) Update to man8 slappasswd: English usage
- To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
- Subject: Re: (ITS#6701) Update to man8 slappasswd: English usage
- From: hyc@symas.com
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:03:11 GMT
- Auto-submitted: auto-generated (OpenLDAP-ITS)
diver06@gmx.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Simon Wright
> Version: 2.4.23
> OS: FreeBSD
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (212.98.32.54)
>
>
> The man page for slappasswd says that encryption scheme names need to be
> protected due to "{". This is wrong usage: scheme names may need to be protected
> *by* "{"
Wrong. The manpage text is correct. The '{' and '}' are part of the scheme
names. Since these are also meta-characters in common command shells, they may
need to be protected from expansion.
This ITS will be closed.
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