Re: Null suffix as default (ITS#723)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

I've added a "defaultSearchBase" configuration directive to
OpenLDAP-devel (HEAD).  Please test.  Thanks.

Kurt

At 08:06 PM 9/10/00 +0000, pmasarati@bci.it wrote:
>Full_Name: Pierangelo Masarati
>Version: 2.0.1
>OS: Linux
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (151.29.251.242)
>
>
>In OpenLDAP 1.2 and earlier I could set an ldbm backend suffix as:
>
>suffix "o=My Org,c=IT"
>suffix ""
>
>and this used to allow to operate searches on the backend with a null search
>base, e.g.
>
>ldapsearch -b "" objectclass=*
>
>would yield all the entries with base "o=My Org,c=IT"
>
>This is no longer true in OpenLDAP 2.0; I temporarily fixed the problem with
>the patch you may find at 
>
>http://mbdyn.aero.polimi.it/~masarati/Download/openldap-2.0.1-default-suffix-hack.patch
>
>by adding a configuration directive 
>
>defaultSuffix   "o=My Org,c=IT"
>
>which allows to substitute a null ("") search base with the default one (it is
>configurable 
>by adding --enable-default-suffix-hack at configure time). This feature is key
>to my 
>application, because I should otherwise reconfigure some 25,000 clients which
>presently
>work with a "" base on a directory with non-null suffix.
>
>The point is: was the feature I mentioned intended in OpenLDAP 1.2 or was it
>kind of
>a bug? And in case it was intended, why isn't it supported any longer in
>OpenLDAP 2.0?
>If my patch seems reasonable, feel free to use it; there is no copyright notice
>since it is nothing but a few lines of code. If you need one, let me know.
>
>
>Bye, Pierangelo Masarati
><ando@sys-net.it>