From 37d677fb8d16b05a387c9f960715be41ae247b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:46:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ITS#8905 clients: fixup connect fail message

---
 clients/tools/common.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clients/tools/common.c b/clients/tools/common.c
index d0dc2a48f1..4b913dd306 100644
--- a/clients/tools/common.c
+++ b/clients/tools/common.c
@@ -1415,9 +1415,14 @@ dnssrv_free:;
 
 		rc = ldap_connect( ld );
 		if( rc != LDAP_SUCCESS ) {
-			fprintf( stderr,
-				"Could not connect to URI=%s ", ldapuri );
-			tool_perror2( ld, "" );
+			static const char connectErr[] = "Could not connect to URI";
+			char *msg = malloc( strlen( ldapuri ) + sizeof(connectErr) + 2 );
+			if ( msg )
+				sprintf(msg, "%s=%s", connectErr, ldapuri );
+			else
+				msg = connectErr;
+			tool_perror2( ld, msg );
+			if ( msg != connectErr ) free( msg );
 			tool_exit( ld, EXIT_FAILURE );
 		}
 
-- 
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