Re: ldapsearch: wildcard search do not list all entries

[Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Birgit Ohlenbusch writes:
> A wildcard search like
>    ldapsearch (...) uid='xyzzs*' uid
> 
> lists only three entries:
> (...)
>     dn: uid=xyzzs146,ou=Accounts,xx
>     uid: xyzzs146
> 
>     dn: uid=xyzzs147,ou=Accounts,xx
>     uid: xyzzs147
> 
>     dn: uid=xyzzs148,ou=Accounts,xx
>     uid: xyzzs148
> 
> though there exists more, which can be displayed with ldapsearch not
> specifying a filter or by specifying the object
> (...)
> Reindexing with slapindex solved the problem, ldapsearch with
> uid='xyzzs*' shows all those entries, not only three.  But I'm afraid
> that this happens again. Can you tell me how somethink like this can
> happen and how I can prevent such a situation?

Your 'uid' index thought only three entries existed in the search scope.
A search without an uid filter worked because it did not use the index.

Maybe you edited slapd.conf and inserted an uid index without running
slapindex.  Thata index would initially be empty, telling slapd there
were no entries matching the filter.  Later you added these three
entries, which did get indexed.

The fix is to always run slapindex after editing the indexes.
Or switch to using cn=config and modify the configuration over the
LDAP protocol, then the attributes get reindexed automatically.

-- 
Hallvard