Re: approx searchs broken in 2.2.8 (ITS#3062)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Try again with proper escaping.  ~ is special to more shells.

Kurt

At 04:16 AM 4/7/2004, m.d.t.evans@qmul.ac.uk wrote:
>Full_Name: Martin Evans
>Version: 2.2.8
>OS: Solaris 8
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (138.37.7.247)
>
>
>Approx searches are not returning any entires.
>
>An exact search:
>
>bash-2.05b$ ldapsearch -H ldap://<host>/ -LLL -x -b "<baseDN>"  "(cn=MDT
>Evans)"
>dn: ***************************************
>uid: *****
>ou: Computing Services
>objectClass: inetOrgPerson
>sn: Evans
>cn: MDT Evans
>initials: MDT
> 
>However,
>
>bash-2.05b$ ldapsearch -H ldap://<host>/ -LLL -x -b "<baseDN>"  "(cn~=MDT
>Evanz)"
>
>bash-2.05b$ ldapsearch -H ldap://<host>/ -LLL -x -b "<baseDN>"  "(cn~=MDT
>Evans)"
>
>Both give no results.
>
>As far as I understand it (for LDAP3 compliancy) the last two entries should at
>least return with the same entry as the exact search. Preferably though, they
>will use the approximate matching routines already in schema_init.c of 2.2.8.
>
>Kind regards,
>Martin.