Re: aliasing and slapd

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:12 PM 9/7/00 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>At 01:58 PM 9/7/00 -0500, Randy Kunkee wrote:
>>OpenLDAP 1.2.x has only limited aliasing support, and this support will
>>not be extended.  Bugs may be fixed, but what you really need to do is
>>get OpenLDAP 2.0 where there is more support for aliasing, as well as
>>ongoing development.
>
>I would categorize both 1.2 and 2.0 as providing limited support
>for aliases.  That is neither supports finding of aliased subtrees
>(or aliased entries).  1.2's implement has some known bugs (see
>archives of this list and the -bugs list).  These bugs are not
>evident in 2.0.  However, the limitation upon alias usage still
>remains.

Correction/Clarification:

Neither supports SEARCHING within aliased subtrees.  That is,
alias support during FINDING is complete.  If the subtree
as the found base includes aliases, the aliased object will
be considered as a candidate for the search BUT objects
below the aliased object will not.   A complete implementation
would consider objects below the aliased object.