Re: Feature request: attribute searches return matching attribute (ITS#2431)

[quanah@stanford.edu]

--On Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:45 AM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:

> At 10:17 AM 4/10/2003, quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
>> I believe Howard's answer is yes, this can be done, but I'm not clear
>> whether or not that is correct from your response.
>
> I'm not all that familiar with back-meta/ldap, so I differ
> to Howard and others on whether that can be done.
>
> However, I think its clear that this can be done in HEAD with
> a post-operation plugin and, eventually, with virtual view
> capabilities.
>
> When these become more available/usable, I would not be surprised
> to find the non-standard NAMEs be dropped from schema.  E.g.,
>         ( 2.5.4.3 NAME 'cn' SUP name )
>
> When that is done, the problem becomes one of aliasing or "virtual
> views".   Hence, I think ITS#2431 and ITS#2432 are really not
> that different.

okay. :)

--Quanah

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