Re: Search filter

[Ralf Haferkamp <rhafer@suse.de>]

On Monday 16 August 2004 15:00, anis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the openLDAP Server 2.2.6 integrated in Suse Linux 9.1.
>
> I am trying to define some searches using filter, and I have noticed a
> strange behaviour. If the search word in the filter is longer than 3
> letters, the search has no results. With max 3 letters results are found.
[..]
>
> and the indexes in slapd.conf:
> index cn,sn,id pres,eq,approx,sub

Did you run slapindex after you added that line to slapd.conf?

> Here is my generated filter:
>
> (&(objectClass=user)(cn=*Anis*)) doesn´t work
>
> (&(objectClass=user)(cn=*nis*)) works

The search with 3 and less characters work because the substring index is only 
used for string that are longer than 3 characters.

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