Re: LDAP Filter Problem

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Melissa Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Michael Str?der wrote:
>
> > Melissa Evans wrote:
> >
> > > "(&(uid=anyuser)(objectclass=posixaccount))" doesn't work.
> > > "(&(objectclass=posixaccount)(uid=anyuser))" works.
> >
> > How does your index configuration look like?
> > You should have an equality index for yttribute 'uid'.
>
> Thanks.  I added this and used slapindex to regenerate indices and it
> works as expected now.  I hadn't got around to specifying indices beyond
> the default thinking they were important for performance but not
> integral to function.

I guess it has to do with search limits and how OpenLDAP builds lists of 
search result candidates. Maybe one of the developers can elaborate on this.

Ciao, Michael.