Re: Problem with Limits in slapd.conf

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

No one else has replied to this, I'll note a long thread on this issue at:

<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-openldap-devel/2006-July/000472.html>

In summary, it works for me, but not for Alexander, and additional insight 
into this welcome.

--Quanah

--On Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:56 AM +1000 Alexander Samad 
<alex@samad.com.au> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using slapd debian package 2.3.24-1 on amd64 etch.
>
> I have tried using the limits command to allow for queries past 500.
>
> when I tried using ldapsearch -x -b "<basedn>" I recieved an error 4
> sizelimit when it tried to retrieve record #4.
>
>
> I wanted to raise the limit but only for certain users so I used
>
> limits dn.exact="cn=Global Address Book
> Admin,ou=Roles,dc=samad,dc=com,dc=au" size=1000 limits
> dn.subtree="dc=samad,dc=com,dc=au" size=1000
> limits users  size=1000
>
>
> I tried each one seperately and with size.soft size.hard and values of
> unlimited and 0 and -1
>
> but I kept getting the same error.
>
> Just for testing I tried sizelimits 1000 and it all worked
>
>
> I have placed these commands after the schema includes, I have tried
> placing them in the backend section but that raised an error
>
>
> Thanks
> Alex



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