Re: Weird problem when searching ldap users

[Keith Olmstead <kolmstea@centurytel.net>]

Thanks for the response.  I just relized that.  That is what I was running into.  Thanks for the reply.

Back to the drawing board on my original problem though.


--Keith


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:39:42 -0800
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>
To: Keith Olmstead <kolmstea@centurytel.net>, openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: Weird problem when searching ldap users



--On Friday, January 23, 2004 11:10 AM -0600 Keith Olmstead
<kolmstea@centurytel.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running into a weird problem that I can not figure out.  When I
> issue the command "getent passwd" I get only about 500 users from both
> local accounts and in ldap, but I have 20000 users in ldap.  I can not
> figure out why it is not showing all of the users.
>
> The "id" command works fine, I am able to get uid and gid information
> fine.  I am running an older version of openldap, 2.0.25 ( working on
> upgrading), with padls, nss_ldap 202 and pam_ldap 167.  If anymore
> informaton is needed just let me know and I will provide.
>
> If anyone can help I would be very grateful.

Most directory servers have a search limit defined.  It sounds like your
server has a search limit of 500 defined.

--Quanah


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