Re: wildcard searches with spaces in search filter

[Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>]

This was a problem for me because my accounting would come back as ' 
user      ' which made it hard link accounting to a user for reporting. 
 I simply started rejecting all white space in the usernames because 
they aren't valid anyway.

I wrote a patch to do this but it didn't get included in the 
distribution.  It is available at:

http://www.aptalaska.net/~matt.s/freeradius/rlm_ldap_whitespace.patch

schu

(sorry for the double post Kurt, it left before I realized it was only 
going to you.)

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 10:08 AM 8/27/2003, Giridhar Raichur wrote:
>
> > I am using Openldap 2.1.22 with Berkeley DB 4.1.25 on a RedHat 7.3
> > server.Backend database is bdb.
> >
> > A query such as "ldapsearch -x '(cn=* martin *)'" returns results as if
> > the filter were '(cn=*martin*)'.
>
>
> This is because, per the LDAP technical specification, the
> directory string " martin " and "martin" are equal per the
> CN attribute's equality matching rule.
>
>
> > How can I preserve the spaces in the search filter?
>
>
> No.  The specification requires that leading, trailing,
> and repeated spaces be ignored in this matching.
>
> Kurt