How are aliases supposed to work?

[Rainer Clasen <bj@zuto.de>]

Hi!

I have tried this setup:

dn: dc=zuto,dc=de

dn: ou=People,dc=zuto,dc=de
...

dn: ou=subdom,dc=zuto,dc=de

dn: ou=People,ou=subdom,dc=zuto,dc=de
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: alias
ou: People
aliasedObjectName: ou=People,dc=zuto,dc=de


This works fine:
 ldapsearch -s sub -a always -x -b "ou=People,ou=subdom,dc=zuto,dc=de" 

But this doesn't:
 ldapsearch -s sub -a always -x -b "ou=subdom,dc=zuto,dc=de" 
 
The alias is dereferenced but entries below ou=People,dc=zuto,dc=de are
not shown. 

I see the risk of an infinite loop when aliases are set up without care.
Is this the cause the aliases target is not searched? I mean is this
intentional behavior and my directory is misdesigned?



Rainer

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