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Re: rootDSE


On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> >Solaris 8 has a native support for nss_ldap and it works correctly, at
> >least it does with the netscape directory server.  I'd like to use
> >OpenLDAP instead. :)  The program that initialises ldap client machines
> >(ldapclient) retrieves information from the root DSE.
> 
> Hopefully it's using the root DSE to discover the supported
> features so that it can optimize it's use of LDAP...
>

Yup.  The client reports that it finds 0 namingcontexts.  It uses the
value of this attribute to set the baseDN (I believe).  Is it possible to
query the root DSE?  ldapsearch -x -b '' 'objectclass=*' does not return
anything.
Thanks.
-Igor