Re: (ITS#7226) olcAuditlogFile At dos not accept multiple values

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
>> --On Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:38 PM +0000 h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no
>> wrote:
>>
>>>   On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:12:31 GMT, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>>>> michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>>>>> 2. add an equality matching rule.
>>>>>
>>>>> My approach with config attrs has been to skip the equality rule for
>>>>> single-valued attrs. Since they are single-valued, there's obviously
>>>>> no need
>>>>> to allow for comparing multiple values.
>>>
>>>   Users always find more ways to use a feature than its creator
>>> imagined.
>>>
>>>   I wish people would give attributes all matching rules they can.
>>>   Equality, ordering, substring.  Except when:
>>>   - flexibility would be a misfeature, e.g. SUBSTR for userPassword,
>>>   - or it's unclear which rules to choose, e.g. caseIgnore vs
>>> caseExact.
>>
>> I agree.  I think defining matching rules where possible is extremely
>> useful.
>
> Patch welcome. This is a pretty trivial patch to write, but I have more
> urgent
> things to attend to.

In general, I also prefer to have NO matching rules associated to attrs
designed for purposes that do not require matching (this is often the case
of configuration-specific attributes mostly if not only intended for
internal use).  Whenever one needs to search them, extensible filtering is
your friend.

p.