Re: Including whitespace in ldap searches

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

Peter Hubbard wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> We're having a slight bit of trouble with the automatic whitespace
> removal feature.
>
> Our clients need to be able to search on a unique number which is
> embedded in an attribute field. The unique number is surrounded by
> single space characters, and can be 7 or 8 digits long. The problem
> comes when we search for a 7 digit number: because of the way wildcards
> and spaces work together, and 8 digit number is sometimes returned.
>
> Simply, we *need* to search on data delimited by whitespace. Is there a
> way to do this? There was on our openldap v 2.0.23, but not any more on
> v. 2.1.30. Does anyone have any ideas and/or suggestions?

Just to give a concrete example that uses standard attributes (I think 
Peter is using a non-standard schema)

$ ldapsearch -x -LLL "cn=Domain *" cn
dn: cn=Domain Admins,ou=Group,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
cn: Domain Admins

[...]

dn: cn=Domain Controllers,ou=Group,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
cn: Domain Controllers

dn: 
cn=DomainAdmins_service,cn=Sudo,cn=Config,ou=Hosts,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
cn: DomainAdmins_service

dn: 
cn=DomainAdmins_ifup,cn=Sudo,cn=Config,ou=Hosts,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
cn: DomainAdmins_ifup

dn: 
cn=DomainAdmins_urpmi_update,cn=Sudo,cn=Config,ou=Hosts,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
cn: DomainAdmins_urpmi_update

This search should not be matching the last 3 entries above ...

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
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