The ITS remains open, as the man page clearly needs to be improved to avoid any misunderstanding. An example would probably suffice.

p.

masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:

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The "strict" and the "ignore" keywords must be part of a single argument. In fact, the unique_uri statement only takes one argument, consisting of the optional "strict" and "ignore" keywords followed by a list of URIs. In order to be recognized as a single argument, the whole thing needs to be included in double quotes, like

unique_uri "strict ldap:///dc=example,dc=com?uid?sub?(objectClass=account)"

p.

ahh I understand - this in mind the manpage makes sense, too. ;-)

unique_uri <[strict ][ignore ]URI[URI...]...>

Thanks a lot for the clarification!