Re: >= (greater or equal) and <= (lower or equal) operators in search filter

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:28 PM +0200 Alexandre Garel 
<garel.alexandre@agora.msa.fr> wrote:

> Hie,
> according to RFC 2254, one can use >= and <= operators in a search filter.
> When I try it on an attribute like uid and cn, with openldap ver 2.1.22
> it does not return an error but a 0 results and in logs I can see
> filter="(?=undefined)".
> Is that because
> - openldap ver 2.1.22 does not implement that part of RFC 2254. In this
> case, does newer version do this (and which one) ? (although
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200208/msg00598.html
> seems to tell it's already implemented).
> - uid and cn have no ordering  ? In this case, what shall I add to the
> schema to make use of these operators on an attribute ?
> Thanks

This doesn't answer your question, but:

OpenLDAP-2.1.22 was a particularly broken release, I suggest moving away 
from it.

More to your question: Does the schema allow inequality filters on those 
attributes?

--Quanah

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