Re: URI Question

["Edwin L. Culp" <edwinlculp@gmail.com>]

Quoting Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>:

> > If I try
> > ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost/o=domain.org?uid?sub?(objectclass=*)
> >
> > The search shows all entries but if I add an ou such as
> >
> > ldapsearch -H
> > ldap://localhost/ou=people,o=domain.org?uid?sub?(objectclass=*)
> >
> > it gives me
> > Could not create LDAP session handle for
> > URI=ldap://localhost/ou=people,o=domain.org?uid?sub?(objectclass=*)
> > (-9): Bad parameter to an ldap routine
> >
> > a -b search with the same ou=people,o=domain.org works fine.
> >
> > Is the "ou=people,o=domain.org in the URI not the same as -b in a search?
> >
> > Another problem with the same uri is that with the working search, if
> > I add an objectclass value, it is ignored.
>
> Everything after <hostport> that is passed to ldapsearch with -H is
> ignored.  This is the intended (and documented) behavior.  Use -b <base>,
> -s <scope>, the <filter> and the <attrlist> arguments as described in
> ldapsearch(1).

That explains it.  Thanks.  I was trying to get 
http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/ for apache to work.  It must doing 
the parsing of the rest.  It asks for the above or similar uri.  Since 
I've not been able to get it to work I was trying to test it seperately.

Thanks, again.

ed