Re: Call for change of ldapsearch results (ITS#484)

[evenh@pvv.ntnu.no]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:06:50PM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 08:22 PM 3/17/00 GMT, evenh+ldap@pvv.ntnu.no wrote:
> >When using the client tool ldapsearch, I've noticed that it always prints the
> >'dn' field.
> 
> Yes, becauses returning entries always contain a DN.

But does this need to be displayed?

> >And to make it even easier to do such a search I would suggest an option to
> >return only the _values_.
> 
> As there is no such protocol option, I don't think the command should
> have such an option.  ldapsearch is meant to relate to the LDAP search
> operation.

That I understand, but I still believe that some people want the
functionality I ask. Do you think the openldap-project at some point 
will include a script/program which returns output without DN and maybe
with only values?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but I really would like to
have a program which could ask a ldap-server and where I could use the
response directly in my mail-program, or where the response is just what
I asked for and not a lot more...

Regards,
Even Holen
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