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Re: New line characters in attribute's value



At 02:46 PM 9/1/00 -0400, Laura Padilla wrote:
>Hi,
>    I wanted to know if it is possible to have new line characters
>inside an attribute's value.

Though not generally recommend, yes.  In fact, you can store any
value allowed by the attribute's syntax.  If octetStringSyntax,
a value can be any sequence of octets (8-bit bytes).  If you are
using a tool that accepts LDIF (like ldapmodify(1)), use the
base64 attribute value form.

Kurt