Return
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Title
'vastool attrs / search returns binary base64 -
Description
When running vastool attrs the attribute returned encoded.
# vastool -u administrator attrs redhat$ data
data: cmVsZWFzZUFyZWEgC -
Cause
If the attribute in Active Directory is binary as opposed to text it will automatically be encoded into base 64. This occurs on both vastool attrs and vastool search.
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Resolution
Pipe the data through base64 -d on Linux, or programmically decoded using Perl (decode_base64) or php (base64_decode)