Page created: 24 Jul 2019
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Page updated: 6 Nov 2019
You can create a properties file with a text editor by specifying each argument, or option,
using standard Java properties file format (name=value). For example, you can create a simple
properties file that define a set of LDAP connection parameters as
follows:
hostname=server1.example.com port=1389 bindDN=cn=Directory\ Manager bindPassword=secret baseDN=dc=example,dc=com
Next, you can specify the location of the file using the --propertiesFilePath
/path/to/ File option with the command-line tool. For example, if you save the
previous properties file as bin/mytool.properties, you can specify the
path to the properties file with ldapsearch as
follows:
$ bin/ldapsearch --propertiesFilePath bin/mytools.properties "(objectclass=*)"
Properties files do not allow quotation marks of any kind around values. Any spaces or
special characters should be escaped. For
example,
bindDN=cn=QA\ Managers,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
The following is not allowed as it contains quotation
marks:
bindDN=cn="QA Managers,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"