Re: New overlay, your opinion?

[Johan Jakus <johan.jakus@gmail.com>]

Thanks for you answer!

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

>I don't understand what you mean with "( _, §, £, ...)", but:

To set what attributes needs to be looked up by the overlay I simply use a symbol before them,

and I leave the possibility for the users to chose what symbol they want to use (default being "_" ).

>Are you sure there is a problem?  It's standard for clients to ask for

>attribute "1.1" when they want no attributes returned:  Asking for any

>attribute suppresses the default behavior of returning all user attrs.

>And there should be no attribute with OID "1.1".  So when slapd looks

>it up, that'll fail and be treated as any other unrecognized attribute.

For my tests I simply use the ldapsearch, no passing by a client program.

Example:

    ldapsearch -x -b "dc=test,dc=com" "(sn=*)" street

      -> this gives "street" in attName[iAtt].an_name.bv_val

    ldapsearch -x -b "dc=test,dc=com" "(sn=*)" _street

      -> this gives "1.1" in attName[iAtt].an_name.bv_val

In the 2.4.23 version of OpenLDAP this worked well. I found "_street" in the an_name.

I would then remove the _ before the attribute name so it would be send as a valid attribute to the server.

Johan Jakus