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Re: newbie question



> access          to dn=".*,ou=Alumni Association,ou=People,o=University of
> Michigan,c=US"
>                 by dn=".*,o=University of Michigan,c=US"
>                 read
>                 by * none
>
> This is taken straight from the slapd.conf under the tests directory.  Can
> someone explain what the heck the ".*" in the dn means??

.* is a regular expression.  The '.' is kind of a wildcard that can take any
value and the '*' means that you can have zero or more of them.

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