michael(a)stroeder.com wrote: slapd doesn't know in advance how many results can be returned. It knows how many potential candidates were generated by index lookups, but this number may be much larger than the actual result set. In particular, the result set may be much smaller due to ACLs, as well as actual filter comparisons. It would be a security violation to disclose the existence of entries that the user is not permitted to see. Rejecting this request. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/