topic authentication.conf userbaseDN attribute being read as multiple stanzas in Security

authentication.conf userbaseDN attribute being read as multiple stanzas

greatdane — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:38:04 GMT

I am working on a UNIX platform where in creating the authentication.conf file using vi or vim, I have multiple LDAP entries that is being wrapped to the next line. Splunk is interpreting this as incomplete stanzas. I am unsure of how to fix this issue. I cannot edit Unix config files to fix the text editor. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: authentication.conf userbaseDN attribute being read as multiple stanzas

greatdane — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:10:53 GMT

would anybody bother to answer this?

Re: authentication.conf userbaseDN attribute being read as multiple stanzas

jplumsdaine22 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:42:39 GMT

I'm pretty sure you can use a trailing \ as a line break character. For example:

[stanza]
key = value line 1 \
          value line 2

That said, it seems unusual that vi would enforce line wrapping as line BREAKING. Can you post your actual config stanza?