07-29-2015 05:08 PM
I'm trying to configure LDAP on a NetBackup Appliance via the commandline. I go to Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory > Configure, but the username I'm using has special characters in it (the "dash" or "minus" symbol). So for example, the username is "netbackup-admin". The Appliance apparently doesn't like special characters in the username. Is there a way to escape the character? I've tried using single/double quotations, forward/back slashes etc but no go. Is there no other way other than changing the username?
NetBackup Appliance 5230 version 2.6.0.4
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07-30-2015 09:37 AM
We were manually entering the commands, no copy/pasting. I found out the fix is to update the Appliance to at least version 2.6.1.2 which supports the "-" character in account names.
Thanks!
07-30-2015 05:10 AM
If you are copying/pasting from MS Word, or Outlook, or any text based application which supports 16bit characters - then you may have this behaviour.
Just as a test... try this... open Notepad, type your command in again in full in Notepad (do not copy from MS Word/Outlook), then try copying your command from Notepad to the CLI of the appliance... does that work? If it works, then the problem is defined as... the "-" character in MS Word is not the same as the "-" character in Notepad. I won't bore you with the details. BTW the same is often true for the double quotes character, i.e. this character: "
07-30-2015 09:37 AM
We were manually entering the commands, no copy/pasting. I found out the fix is to update the Appliance to at least version 2.6.1.2 which supports the "-" character in account names.
Thanks!