Re: Sort ldap results

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Martin Hochreiter <linuxbox@wavenet.at> writes:
>
> > How can I generally sort ldap querys by any attribute?
> >
> > (I don't mean queries via ldapsearch command, I mean
> > force the server to sort a special tree by e.g. gecos)
>
> Serverside sorting is not implemented, if you only want a selected
> attribut list of the tree presented you may have a look at dynlist
> overlay. 

Not quite true.

1) You cannot *force* the server to sort results for you, by any means.

2) The server side sorting control is implemented, but the specification 
for SSS is useless. Our implementation is a no-op, which is in full 
compliance with the SSS spec.

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