Bug? Changing netware home directory via LDAP.

[Fergus D. <fer...@dc...>]

Hi All,

I have a problem with setting the Netware home directory attribute via
perl-ldap. Here's what I'm doing:

I have an NDS8 server on which I'm creating user a/cs. This works fine
in the majority of cases but I found what may be a bug in perl-ldap
today. I'm setting the NWHomeDirectory attribute (changed name to avoid
clash with posixAccount) to items like:

cn=CYAN_DATA4,ou=CYAN,o=DCU#0#\students\J-Z\xe\xe2\userj9

with no problems - however when I try to set it to the following it
doesn't work:

cn=CYAN_DATA2,ou=CYAN,o=DCU#0#\students\C-E\ca\ca2\userj9

I get garbage in the "Home Directory" dialogue box under ConsoleOne
after the "C-E".

I've tracked this down to perl -ldap interpreting \c (or \b, \a etc.) as
special characters. I build this string on the fly so I can't see an
easy way of single quoting it (if that would help?). I've tried setting

$NWHomeDirectory="'".$NWHomeDirectory."'";

but it didn't help.

Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks,

Fergus.