On Nov 20, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Monday, November 20, 2006 11:23 AM -0800 Donn Cave
<donn(a)u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Matt Brown wrote:
>> I have an issue that just started a few days ago where when I
>> search our LDAP for the field employeeNumber a number of my
>> accounts will come back as not found even though they are in there,
>> I can search by the uid and find the person and looking at the
>> record the employeeNumber is exactly what I was searching for.
>>
>> I can however do a search for (employeeNumber=*000111222) and find
>> the employee where a search for (employeeNumber=000111222) will not
>> find anything. On other accounts the search returns the expected
>> result.
> If it would be reasonably convenient to build a new directory
> somewhere,
> from a slapcat of the current one, I would do that and see if the new
> directory is any better.
I honestly think that advice is a little premature without more
detail on what versions of software is being run, what database
bits are being used, and whether or not the thing had an index
added without the database being indexed....
OK, Matt - cancel that, don't do it until Quanah gives you the go-ahead!
Donn Cave, donn(a)u.washington.edu