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Re: Inappropriate matching

To: <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: Re: Inappropriate matching
From: "Richard Ellerbrock" <richarde@eskom.co.za>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 19:19:15 +0200
Cc: <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
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>The filter (member=cn=foo*) is Undefined.  'member' does
>not have a substring matching rule.  There is no substring
>matching rule for distinguished names.
>
>No entry should match this filter.
>
>An LDAPv3 server *should* likely not return the result
>of inappropriate matching, but return success with no
>entries.  The fact that this did not occur leads me to
>believe the server is an LDAPv2 server or is flawed.

Yes, the server is v2. So my only solution is to get all the group members and do a manual compare against the cn portion taking care of duplicates. For my application this would be quicker than searching the entire tree if the dn belongs to the group.

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Richard Ellerbrock
richarde@eskom.co.za

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