Re: LDAP entry mtimes?

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

>Howdy!  I sent this email once, but maybe too soon after I joined the list;
>I never saw it.  Please forgive me if it's a duplicate!
>I've been looking through the various APIs of LDAP for Perl and C.
>For my application, I'd like to be able to get the last modification time of
>an LDAP entry.  It's beginning to look like this feature isn't built into
>LDAP, but I'd like to ask the experts before I go through a lot of trouble
>to add it myself as an attribute each time I modify an entry.

If your DSA is OpenLDAP "lastmod" must be "on"

These are operation attributes and must be requested by name in the query.
See the special attrbutes and objectclasses section of my LDAP
presentation - ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf