Re: Size Limit Exceeded!

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

Most server enforce hard administrative limits for most users.
I suggest either authenticate as a user immune to such limits
(such as the directory manager) or adjust the hard limits.
For OpenLDAP, see slapd.conf(5).

Kurt

At 09:12 AM 2/21/01 -0600, Mauricio Mejia wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I was wondering if there is any way to get around the "Size limit
>exceeded(4)" error that I anytime I access more than 500 records.
>
>$ ldapsearch -LLL -v -b "ou=employees,dc=hsc,dc=mb,dc=ca"
>"employeenumber=5*" -A >out.txt                           
>ldap_initialize( <DEFAULT> )
>filter: employeenumber=5*
>requesting: ALL
>Size limit exceeded (4)
>
>I've even tried the -z in the ldapsearch with -z 32767 and that still fails
>at 500 records.
>
>I've even tried to delete records recursively and I get the same error!
>
>$ ldapdelete -r -D "ou=employee,dc=hsc,dc=mb,dc=ca"
>"ou=employees,dc=hsc,dc=mb,dc=ca"                               
>ldap_search: Size limit exceeded
>Delete Result: Operation not allowed on nonleaf (66)
>Additional info: subtree delete not supported
>
>How can I get around this limitation?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mauricio
>
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