Re: Weird SASL thing

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >  From the script:
> > >     ldapadd -U root -w 'FuNkyP@sswd' -f /tmp/userdata.ldif
> > > [..]
> > > ldapadd -U root -w 'FuNkyP@sswd' -f /tmp/userdata.ldif
> >
> > Maybe different handling of the single quotes around the password in 
> > your user shell and the script's shell? Just a wild guess though.
>
> Well, I'm doing the single quotes to hide any special characters (the
> actual password contains a bang ("!") in it). 

I vaguely remember that I had problems with ! even when quoted. How 
about setting and trying another password.

Those issues are exactly the reasons why I always recommend to use a 
decent scripting language like Perl, Python or others with a decent LDAP 
module instead of a shell-script which invokes the command-line tools. 
Escaping/quoting rules for strings and also error handling is much 
better there.

Ciao, Michael.