Re: OpenLDAP as an address book for MS Outlook

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, December 10, 2012 8:59 AM +0700 Victor Sudakov 
<vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Michael Str?der wrote:
> > > Michael Str?der wrote:
> > >>> "Be liberal in what you receive and conservative in what you send" is
> > >>> a good old rule.
> > >>
> > >> If you change the subschema subentry you change something sent to the
> > >> client.
> > >
> > > I still don't understand what's so bad about being able to request the
> > > ordering of the 'cn' attribute.
> >
> > Actually the client could request that.
>
> The client does request that, it seems, but OpenLDAP produces an error.
> It requests a SortKeyList control on the attribute 'cn'. But OpenLDAP
> returns an error.

No, it is not requesting it.  You can request the rule you want as part of 
the filter.  See 
<http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapcat&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.4-Release&format=html> 
for an example of a filter that specifies the matching rule in a filter.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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