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Re: (ITS#6701) Update to man8 slappasswd: English usage



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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