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@@ -406,10 +406,14 @@ client for its session. The default value for @var{file} is
This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the format
-@sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn}
+@sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn:flags}
Lines starting with a @samp{#} are comments.
+The only defined flag is @code{ldaps} to specify that a TLS
+connections shall be used. Flags are comma delimited; unknown flags
+are ignored.
+
Note that as usual all strings entered are expected to be UTF-8 encoded.
Obviously this will lead to problems if the password has originally been
encoded as Latin-1. There is no other solution here than to put such a