Re: [JunkMail] Restricting wildcard searches - find only exact matches?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Nick France wrote:
> I'm running OpenLDAP 2.3.35 for a simple 'address book'-type directory.
> There will be anonymous access available to read entries, however, I
> would like to restrict wildcard searches, and only ever return exact
> matches. As the entries are unique, there should only ever be one result
> (sizelimit is set to 1 to ensure this).
>
> I've tried many things with ACLs, trying to filter out the wildcard
> characters [(!(cn=*\2a*))] but with no success.
>
> Is this possible? Is there a simple flag/directive/compile option to
> disable wildcard searching?

Don't bother with ACLs. Just set the "unchecked" size limit.

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