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Re: (ITS#7226) olcAuditlogFile At dos not accept multiple values

quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
> --On Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:38 PM +0000 h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
>
>>   On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:12:31 GMT, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>>> michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>>>> 2. add an equality matching rule.
>>>>
>>>> My approach with config attrs has been to skip the equality rule for
>>>> single-valued attrs. Since they are single-valued, there's obviously
>>>> no need
>>>> to allow for comparing multiple values.
>>
>>   Users always find more ways to use a feature than its creator imagined.
>>
>>   I wish people would give attributes all matching rules they can.
>>   Equality, ordering, substring.  Except when:
>>   - flexibility would be a misfeature, e.g. SUBSTR for userPassword,
>>   - or it's unclear which rules to choose, e.g. caseIgnore vs caseExact.
>
> I agree.  I think defining matching rules where possible is extremely
> useful.

Patch welcome. This is a pretty trivial patch to write, but I have more urgent 
things to attend to.

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