Re: (ITS#5768) [enhancement] add support for Dereference Control

[abartlet@samba.org]

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On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:23 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 23:22 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 00:15 +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > >> A tentative implementation is in HEAD, please test.  You need to:
> > >=20
> > > Thankyou very much.  I downloaded CVS HEAD and tested it out (finally=
 -
> > > the Samba4 side of the implementation took far longer than I expected=
).
> > >=20
> > >> - configure as --enable-deref
> > >>
> > >> - enable the "deref" overlay in slapd, with "overlay deref" (doesn't
> > >> work as global overlay yet, sorry).
> > >=20
> > > This is something Samba4 will need, as many of our links are
> > > cross-database.  But fixing this for a single DB is a big help in any
> > > case.
> >=20
> > Apparently this was fixed during the overlay's shakedown, as it seems t=
o=20
> > work as expected when only instantiated as global.  In fact, nothing wa=
s=20
> > preventing it from working this way by design, it only didn't work at=20
> > some point of its evolution.  Please test.
>=20
> Indeed, it works well as a global.  Thanks!
>=20
> My only issue remaining is the clarification over the ASN.1 encoding of
> the control.

While I'm still confused about the ASN.1, I've coded to match OpenLDAP's
current behaviour.

The deref overlay seems to be working well.  Many thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.

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