Re: Bug? Changing netware home directory via LDAP.

[Jim H. <ha...@us...>]

Fergus,
  What Netware attribute did you map to NWHomeDirectory?  I am interested
in setting home directories also.  What do you do to actually create the
directories?  Any other hints?  I have account creation scripts that do
everything but setup home directories and create GroupWise accounts.
  --Jim harle


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Fergus Donohue wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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