RE: (uid=*) search filter returns no entries (ITS#2522)

[hyc@highlandsun.com]

I see the problem, thanks. One thing to note however, is this only fails when
the particular attribute is not indexed. If you're doing a lot of these
searches, you should be using an index on the relevant attribute.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

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> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of
> jemiller@uchicago.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:00 AM
> To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: (uid=*) search filter returns no entries (ITS#2522)
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>
> Howard Chu wrote me and told me that this bug is a duplicate
> of ITS#2507.
>
> I just tested again with OpenLDAP 2.1.20 and found that the
> bug may only be
> partly fixed. For example, if I do a,
>
> ldapsearch '(uid=*)'
>
> it now works. i.e. it returns entries whereas before it didn't return
> anything.
>
> This also works.
>
> ldapsearch '(uid=swilson)'
>
> However, this doesn't work.
>
> ldapsearch '(&(uid=*)(uid=swilson))'
>
> It doesn't return any entries. This query worked in OpenLDAP 2.1.11.
>
> Jon
>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: (uid=*) search filter returns no entries (ITS#2522)
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