Re: cn/approx in openldap 2.0.11

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

2.0 doesn't support approximate matching except through
equality matching.

Kurt

At 06:36 PM 5/31/01, Allan E Johannesen wrote:
>in slapd.conf, the line
>
>index cn approx
>
>causes an error message: "approx index of attribute cn disallowed".  This is a
>disappointment, since I used to index it under openldap 1.  Have I done
>something wrong?  Can 'cn' (or sn or title) not be indexed this way any more?
>Is there some alternative enabling approximate spelling search for names?
>
>I used these schema:
>
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/misc.schema
>
>and some custom schema which, I hope, had no effect.  They didn't redefine
>'cn', for example:
>
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/eduperson.schema
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/wpieduperson.schema
>
>Thanks for any guidance anyone can give me...