Piotr Wadas wrote: > Hello, > using openldap 2.3.35. > > When I do a search for some attribute like "cn=foobar", and in set of > attributes which are to be returned per-entry is "cn" attribute, all its > values are returned. > > however, when I search with "cn=foo*", and entry has multiple > "cn" values, like > > "cn=foo", > "cn=joe", > "cn=foobar", > "cn=foobarX", > "cn=bob", > "cn=nofoobar" > > - is it possible to have "cn" returned, but only these values, > which actually matched the filter ?
Yes. Use RFC 3876 control. E.g. $ ldapsearch -E mv="(cn=foo*)" > Or, is it possible > to find out how many values of "cn" in particular entry, matched? Dunno. But you can count the values returned by the above search > While doing such search in some specified case, I'm interested > only with values "cn=foo", "cn=foobar" and "cn=foobarX", I do not > care what are other "cn" values, nor even there are other values > of "cn" which didn't match, or not. Such feature seems complicated, > because filter actually may be build with many attributes, > - and only if some of them are specified in return attributes, the > matching values should be returned . p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it --------------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------
