* Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:47 +0200) > Just to follow up my own questions: I really love ApacheDS because of > the sheer beauty and simplicity of its setup and configuration but I > find some rather odd behaviour the more I dig into internals: > > 4. I tried to query the RootDSE object via Python - without sucess - > then I tried the same with OpenLDAP's ldapsearch: same issue: > > thors...@tkampe% ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "" -s base > dn: > objectClass: extensibleObject > objectClass: top > > ...while the same queries work against an eDirectory and Active > Directory server. It also seems that LDAP clients have problems > displaying the RootDSE object: Softerra's six year old LDAP Browser and > Apache Directory Studio can display the RootDSE object while LDAP Admin > and LDAPSoft's LDAP Browser can't. What's going on here?
Looks like most clients don't understand or expect Operational Attributes (whatever that is): "ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "" -s base +" works for ApacheDS - while that of course fails against Active Directory and eDirectory. Hm. Thorsten
