Michael Ströder wrote: Agreed, OID-based controls for client-side library behavior seems rather unwieldy. I would agree though, that per-request control of library behavior is a good thing. The C API still has no ldap_search() parameter for alias deref behavior. It's a bit ridiculous that it's a library-level option, since the option only has relevance to search requests. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/