Re: Root DSE and subschema queries/compares

[sanjay jain <sanjay.jain@software.com>]

Jim Sermersheim wrote:

> People would like to perform compare operations on attributes of the root DSE and/or subschema subentry, but I don't see any obvious provisions for doing this.
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> In order to read the root DSE and subschema subentry, you must specify a particular filter: "(objectclass=*)" for root DSE and "(objectclass=subschema)" for the subschema subentry. I can't find anything that talks about whether the compare operation is allowed (this should also be mentioned in the subentry draft).
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> If it were allowable to perform a compare operation on these entries, the requirement above would be met. Alternately, we could allow the search filter to contain more information such as: "&(objectclass=*)(supportedControl=1.2.3.4)" on a root DSE query would only return the root DSE if it had 1.2.3.4 in the supportedControl attribute. Same notion for schema entries.
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> Any feelings on how to do this?

why do you think that compare operation is *not*
allowed on DSE root and subschema entries ?

sanjay

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> Jim