On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 01:27:28AM +0400, Jephte Clain wrote:
What I wanted to know is whether the decision to encode in base64 is done by the client or the server returning a "binary" flag or something you said "ldapsearch, always *encode* userPassword value in base64", so I guess this is the client decision to make a special case of userPassword, right?
Correct. By default only userPassword receives that treatment, but libldap users can add others.
http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;hb=refs/heads/OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4;a=blob;f=libraries/libldap/ldif.c#l364