Re: ldapsearch using dn= as the filter returns no results.

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

--On Monday, March 21, 2005 1:34 PM -0500 "Eclipse WebMaster (Denis Roy)" 
<webmaster@eclipse.org> wrote:

>  > "dn=<something>" is not a valid filter because "dn" is not an attribute
>  > name.  If you already know the DN to search for, then what you need is
> a
>  > "read", i.e. a search with base=the DN and scope="base".  But this
>  > question is off-topic here.
>
> That makes sense, and solves my problem, thanks.
>
> I apologize if I was off-topic, but I believed I was on-topic by reading
> the description from OpenLDAP's page:
>
> "This mailing list is for technical discussions of use topics specific to
> OpenLDAP Software (as well as JLDAP and JDBC-LDAP). All users of OpenLDAP
> Software should subscribe to this list. This list can have a high volume
> of messages."

Yes, but technically your question is about the behavior of LDAP in 
general, and not something specific to OpenLDAP. ;) I.e, your question 
applies to all directory servers, not just how OpenLDAP works. ;)

--Quanah

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