RE: Escaping the special meaning of + in attribute value

[David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Nalla, Suneetha R (Suneetha) *CTR* wrote:

> > [root]# ldapsearch "mail=+test@unilim.fr"
> > userid=dutest,dc=unilim,dc=unilim,dc=fr
> > givenname=pdutest
> > mail=+test@unilim.fr
[...]
> Yes I did test with out the " and \ it works. But what I am saying is
> according to the LDAP standard to escape the special meaning of + we have to
> enclose it in " or escape it with \.

Isn't that only for DNs, not for all attribute types?  The search example
above doesn't match an attribute type that is part of the DN.

Cheers..


dave