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Re: Special characters in bindpw



Alex Moen wrote:
> Say that my bindpw is d!ffs3r^ (it, of course, is not).  What is the proper
> way to use this passwd in ldap.conf or nslcd.conf so that the special
> characters are not interpreted incorrectly?

For static passwords in a configuration file which do not have to be typed in
by a user I use randomly generated ACSII-only passwords but with 16+ chars length.

Ciao, Michael.