Re: ldap_bind: No such object

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:48 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:40:22AM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>> At 09:00 AM 3/15/00 -0800, Frank Liu wrote:
>> >I am sorry I didn't compile the source myself. I grabbed
>> >the binary from ...
>> 
>> I suggest you report the problem to the repackager so that
>> he/she may work with us on resolving the problem.
>
>I suspect the problem is related to errant whitespace in one of the
>config files used to initialize things.  I've been told by one of our
>technical support people that whitespace at the end of a line doesn't
>appear to always be automatically stripped off, and a couple of hours
>ago in our test lab we found a test problem due to my own inconsistent
>use of whitespaces inside of dn's (my own fault).

Differing whitespace instead of DN should be okay for parameters
expecting DNs.  Note however that ACL "dn" parameters don't
expect DN, but REGEX matching normalized DN.  Extra spaces here
can be deadly.