On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:50:36 -0400, Elier Delgado wrote
> Hi guys,
>
> It's very strange but I need get random entries from the OpenLdap, specifically get randoms users (N users) .. it's a requirement of the system that I'm designing ....
>
> I'm using PHP and is not efficient get all results and do the random with the index of the result array ...because the results must be many ..
>
> And I'm not happy to apply a random to a filter values, for example generating randomly uid and getting near results ...
>
> So, I will appreciate any idea ...
>
> Regards, Elier


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I do not understand what you mean with the last restriction Opensss could provides you random byte string Here the doc for a command form http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/rand.html# A C language interface also exists I am not aware of a php interface Best regards Dominique LOHEZ