Re: overlay question

[Roland Hedberg <roland@catalogix.se>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Roland Hedberg wrote:

> > The common denominator seems to be that search with baseobject "" is 
> > not passed through the overlay, while when the baseobject is not "" 
> > the overlays gets to handle the request.
> >
> > Again, why is that ?
>
>
> Overlays are configured on specific backends. The overlay will only be 
> invoked in the same circumstances that the backend itself would normally 
> be invoked; i.e., the operation must reference an entry that is inside 
> the backend's naming context. The base object "" does not reside in any 
> backend.

Oh, you're absolutely right. Should have realized that.

> You may be interested in the patch in ITS#3080 if you want your overlay 
> to have global effect.

Hmm, global effect could be interesting, but a way of handling things 
that are connected with the base object ""(like anonymous bind, root 
DSE) would be more interesting.

-- Roland