3.2 Special Characters

In iManager, some characters have special significance and must be escaped with the backslash (\) character:

NDAP (eDirectory):

  • Period (.)

  • Equal sign (=)

  • Plus sign (+)

  • Backslash (\)

LDAP:

  • Distinguished names (DNs) and = + \ @; < >

  • Leading #

  • Leading or trailing spaces

For LDAP, any character can be specified with \xx. See RFC 2253 for more information.