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Re: substring filters using DN attributes ?

At 04:45 PM 7/21/00 -0700, sanjay jain wrote:
>It looks like from standard LDAP schema that 
>substring matching is not allowed for DN syntax 
>attributes.  E.g. for 'member' attribute. 
>Does it mean from <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-just-ldapv3-rescodes-02.txt>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-just-ldapv3-rescodes-02.txt 
>section 5.2.2.1.3 that if an LDAP server gets a filter 
>like: member=*dc=org1,dc=com 
>it should return 'inappropriateMatching' error code ? 

No.

The filter (member=*dc=org1,dc=com) is Undefined.  The operation
may complete successful with no entries being returned.