Re: Newbie search question - Help!

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

--On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:01 PM -0500 "Woo, Chen Ching" 
<cwoo@spss.com> wrote:

> I'm new to LDAP have openLDAP installed.  I started to play a little bit
> with searching and I believe there is something very fundamental I'm
> missing.  My problem is that I don't seem to be able to search on entries
> based on attribute which has DN as value. For instance, using
> (uniqueMember=cn=role1,dc=mycompany,dc=com) or (uniqueMember=cn*) or as
> filters, I don't seem to be able to match the following entry. I try
> escaping the '=' and ',' characters with '\' but to no avail.
>
>
>
> Any help is very much appreciated.
>
>
> dn: cn=role1,dc=roles,dc=mycompany,dc=com
>
> cn: role1
>
> objectClass: groupOfUniqueNames
>
> uniqueMember: cn=role1,dc=mycompany,dc=com
>
> uniqueMember: cn=both,dc=mycompany,dc=com

What version of OpenLDAP?

Did you index uniqueMember as eq and substr?  Note that for substring 
searches, you need three characters plus * by default.

--Quanah



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