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Re: How do I create a server for root?



On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:33:43AM +1100, David J N Begley wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Rich Graves wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Niels Poppe wrote:
> > 
> > > In servers/slapd/backend.c you can #define LDAP_ALLOW_NULL_SEARCH_BASE
> > > and a subtree query with a base dn="" will search the first defined
> > > backend in your configuration.
> > 
> > Intriguing. If I only have one backend (which I'd expect is the most usual
> > case), is this a potential "fix" for clients with no search base defined?
> 
> I'm curious as to how "compatible" this workaround would be with future LDAPv3
> support (given the introduction of the root DSE);  from reading IETF RFC 2251,
> section 3.4 would tend to indicate that it should work (that is, the root DSE
> is available in base searches, but not subtree searches - one-level searches
> aren't mentioned).
One thing I am still asking myself is:
If I have different Suffixes for each country is:
can i search with -b ""?

Konstantin