Re: Newbie search question - Help!

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez@opentechnet.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --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
   A quetion related to this... from what version is uniqueMember 
indexable? I'm working with 2.1.26 and it seems in this version you 
cannot index uniqueMember.

   Best regards
   Jose