RE: When to not deref aliases

["Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>]

So it sounds like we should state that Compare and ModDN do not deref the alias. Does X.500 deref the bind name (or equiv) if it's an alias?

Jim

>>> "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com> 11/16/00 7:24:03 PM >>>
You're right, Compare should not dereference (as it has no way of saying not
to dereference).

As regards X.500, CommonArguments, ServiceControls contains
options:dontDereferenceAliases, and this is available to all operations
(where Bind is not an operation). Of course, it is ignored in update
operations.

Ron.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org] 
Sent: Friday, 17 November 2000 13:05
To: Jim Sermersheim
Cc: Ron.Ramsay@ca.com; ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org 
Subject: RE: When to not deref aliases


At 06:39 PM 11/16/00 -0700, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>Well, I don't think we can do that for v3. I'm just trying to get
clarification on whether we should explicitly state that alias dereferencing
does not happen for those three op's.

I assume this is in X.500 somewhere, but I believe aliases
should be dereferenced during processing of the search operation.
Other operations should act upon the alias, not the aliased object.