On 1/7/04 6:40 am, news.hinet.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When  search an entry that have attribute(objectclass:alias) i got the error
> message:
> a problem while attempting to dereference an alias
> 
> How to search an entry that have attribute(objectclass:alias) ?
> 
> 
> dn: uid=alaistest,ou=test,ou=people,dc=pduke,dc=com,dc=tw
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: shadowAccount
> objectClass: alias
> uid: luke
> aliasedObjectName: uid=happy5,ou=week1,ou=people,dc=pduke,dc=com,dc=tw

The search method has a 'deref' parameter (see the Net::LDAP documentation),
which should let you control how the server processes aliases during the
search.

Cheers,

Chris


Reply via email to