h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
ando@sys-net.it writes:
The current specification is formalized in a comment in overlays/deref.c; I intend to improve it and post it at http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1469.html.
You've specified the syntax, but not the semantics. I don't see any mention there of what this control does, though I suppose the examples help if one knows what a GUID and a SID are.
I will, in a more detailed document.
BTW, possibly "deref(erence)" is a confusing name for the control, since it is apparently not related to aliases.
"Dereference" means take DN-valued attributes, lookup the requested attributes from their entry and present the whole thing (name + attrs) as the control value. So
ldapsearch -E deref=member:cn,sn
will return a control value consisting in sequences of member values contained in the search, plus the corresponding values of cn and sn.
p.
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