Re: potential bug

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Rahul Amaram wrote:
> While working with OpenLDAP, I've observed something strange. I am not
> sure if this is the anticipated behaviour. Let us say we have two
> attributes 'name' and 'middleName' and the former is the superior of the
> latter i.e.
> 
> attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.74 NAME 'middleName' SUP name )
> 
> Now let us assume that the value of the attribute 'middleName' for a
> particular dn is 'Konda'. Then performing a search on the basedn with
> the filter "(name=Konda)" returns that particular dn. Is this a bug or
> anticipated behaviour?

This works as intended. If you don't want that then don't use SUP name.

Ciao, Michael.