j@gropefruit.com writes:

On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:56 , Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

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Are they saying it somewhere public? I'm sure there are some OpenLDAP things they disagree with (I do too), but on this, RFC 4512 section 5.1 is quite clear, not to say loud:

"The root DSE SHALL NOT be included if the client performs a subtree search starting from the root."

I appreciate what you're trying to say, but let me be clear about something. USERS do not care about RFCs.

Yes, that's why I asked where they were saying it, to talk with them directly without you caught in the middle...

Fortunately, I have a solution. I was surgical in whom I was going to argue with. I chose to argue with SUN and denounce their crappy software. They too touted RFC this and RFC that. I told them to shove their RFCs somewhere long and narrow. As a result, they ADMIT that its wrong and they're going to issue a BACKPORT for my situation. Which should have been done to begin with.

Thank you.