Re: ldapsearch case insensitive

[Norbert Klasen <norbert.klasen@daasi.de>]

--On Freitag, 12. April 2002 10:09 +0530 Susanth_TS@sifycorp.com wrote:

> We have an openldap server which authenticates users. "uid" is the
> attribute with which it authenticates.
>
> We find that ldapsearch is case insensitive when search is done with uid
> as the filter.

The attribute type "uid" is defined with matching rules that ignore case:

attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1
       NAME ( 'uid' 'userid' )
       DESC 'RFC1274: user identifier'
       EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
       SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{256} )

If you need it to be case sensitive, you should define your own ("myUid") 
with caseExact matching.

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