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RE: DefaultSearchBase / ForceSearchBase

To: "Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>
Subject: RE: DefaultSearchBase / ForceSearchBase
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:01:10 -0800
Cc: "'Mathias Meisfjordskar'" <mathias.meisfjordskar@usit.uio.no>, "'Jon Mitchiner'" <ldap@mitchiner.net>, <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <001801c2fad9$ea4df520$0e01a8c0@CELLO>
References: <y6wznn6f7lm.fsf@dumbo.uio.no>

At 10:41 AM 4/4/2003, Howard Chu wrote:
>Support for suffixalias was dropped in 2.1.6. (Six, not sixteen!) If it ever
>returns, it will be sometime in the 2.2 releases. In this particular case you
>can fix the problem using back-ldap to forward requests from the bad
>searchbase to the correct one. But it would be smarter for you to fix the
>clients.

Or you can use referrals (possibly with back-glue)...

Also, I note that 2.1 does support a "defaultSearchBase"
configuration directive.  See slapd.conf(5) for details.

Kurt

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