Re: (ITS#5768) [enhancement] add support for Dereference Control

[ando@sys-net.it]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 00:15 +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> A tentative implementation is in HEAD, please test.  You need to:
> 
> Thankyou very much.  I downloaded CVS HEAD and tested it out (finally -
> the Samba4 side of the implementation took far longer than I expected).
> 
>> - configure as --enable-deref
>>
>> - enable the "deref" overlay in slapd, with "overlay deref" (doesn't
>> work as global overlay yet, sorry).
> 
> This is something Samba4 will need, as many of our links are
> cross-database.  But fixing this for a single DB is a big help in any
> case.

Apparently this was fixed during the overlay's shakedown, as it seems to 
work as expected when only instantiated as global.  In fact, nothing was 
preventing it from working this way by design, it only didn't work at 
some point of its evolution.  Please test.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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