Re: dynlist-overlay and requesting an attribute

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Harry Jede wrote:
> Hi,
> one last question.
>
> What is the technical reason, that a compare alone works and a compare 
> in a search filter fails?

Compares for member DN work because the overlay is used the other way 
round, namely entries belonging to the subtree specification represented 
by each URL are looked up until a match is found.  This is explicitly 
intended to support dynamic group membership checking the right way.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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