Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: help Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: dan aronson RE: Getting unreadable data [ reply ]   2007-12-30 03:43 I found a Java tool from called LdapDecoder (doc at http://www.slamd.com/docs/ldapdecoder_usage_guide.pdf) which can be used either as an LDAP proxy or to go over snoop or tcpdump data which will give you english readable LDAP messages. By: James Hunt RE: Getting unreadable data [ reply ]   2007-12-28 16:08 The information that's coming out as garbage is in a binary format. If you can get some reference from your LDAP Provider as to the structure of the binary data, you can use String#pack/String#unpack to get the data into a usable format. Failing that, your probably out of luck... By: white wizzard Getting unreadable data [ reply ]   2007-11-08 18:25 Hi all I am reading the userparameters from AD and I get this userparameters , P〰〰〰〰>CtxShadow㄰〰〰〰(>CtxMaxConnectionTime〰〰〰〰.>CtxMaxDisconnectionTime〰〰〰〰>CtxMaxIdleTime〰〰〰〰">CtxKeyboardLayout〰〰〰〰*>CtxMinEncryptionLevelã„° >CtxWorkDirectory〰 >CtxNWLogonServer〰>CtxWFHomeDir〰">CtxWFHomeDirDrive〰 >CtxWFProfilePath〰">CtxInitialProgram〰">CtxCallbackNumber〰 I would like to be able to read this data, does anyone know how to make it human readable? Other data such as sn and given name come out fine. White Wizzard