Re: help adding a group

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jon Roberts wrote:
> Adam Williams wrote:
> > I'm trying to add a group with 2 users to LDAP, but i'm running into 
> > problems.  When I add my group and then search for it, it shows a 
> > userPassword,
>
> What are your ACLs? If they allow reading the userPassword attribute for 
> groups, you'll see the values as expected.
>
> > and garbles the memberUid of the first user I added to the 
> > group.  Any ideas?
>
> See RFC 2849. Base64 encoding isn't garbling. It's very common for data 
> to be Base64 encoded when output as LDIF. The specific criteria is 
> unclear (to me), but you can expect some text fields to be encoded. Look 
> for the double colons (::) after the attribute name to indicate that 
> it's encoded.

The only reason for base64 encoding in the example the original poster sent is 
that there must have been trailing whitespace on one of the input values.
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