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Re: ldapsearch filter - bad filter !!!!



At 08:55 AM 2001-08-27, Fabrice Nouet wrote:
>I find strange behavior with ldapsearch command which worked with ldap v2 .

v2 and v3 are quite different.

>So a filter with "*" for objectclass does not work !!!!???

Yes. objectClass, of syntax OID, does not support substrings
matching.

>Someone knows why this restriction exists for ldap v3 ?

Actually, the restriction is in LDAPv2 as well.  It worked
in OpenLDAP 1.x due to the way syntaxes and matching rules
were implemented.

Kurt