Re: Alias dereferencing not working..

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

The behavior you describe is as to be expected.  While
the alias is dereferenced (no aliasing errors where
indicated), the aliased object (or any objects subordinate
to it) is only returned if that object matches the
filter.

Kurt

At 12:33 PM 8/24/2005, Jake Scott wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm attempting to set up an alias in our directory, so that I can have two users with the same credentials but different UIDs, or multiple  
>mail aliases with the same member list.
>
>To test this, I've created the following entry:
>
>       dn: uid=test,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org
>       aliasedObjectName: uid=jacob,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org
>       uid: test
>       objectClass: alias
>       objectClass: uidObject
>       objectClass: top
>
>I can find this, and the entry it points to, using a search without dereferencing:
>
>   ldapsearch  -LL -H ldaps://ldap.flirble.org:636/ -a never -b "ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org" '(|(uid=test)(uid=jacob))'
>   version: 1
>
>   dn: uid=jacob,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org
>   uid: jacob
>   sn: Scott
>   ( etc...)
>
>   dn: uid=test,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org
>   aliasedObjectName: uid=jacob,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org
>   uid: test
>   objectClass: alias
>   objectClass: uidObject
>   objectClass: top
>
>However, when I search for uid=test,ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org, with "searching" or "always", it doesn't return anything:
>
>   ldapsearch  -LL -H ldaps://ldap.flirble.org:636/ -a always -b "ou=users,dc=flirble,dc=org" '(uid=test)'
>   version: 1
>
>I've set "maxderefdepth   5" in the "database bdb" section of slad.conf.
>
>Am I just being dumb, or should it be returning my user entry here?...
>
>Server version is 2.2.27.
>
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Jake