Hi

If I run a query against my directory with this filter:

"(myDeviceId=ZZZ-07430.08.12345678*)"

it returns a match showing precisely that myDeviceId = "ZZZ-07430.08.12345678"

If I use this filter, without the wildcard and just the actual value

"(myDeviceId=ZZZ-07430.08.12345678)"

it returns no match.

Even if I change the attribute value to something very simple like "x" I still need to include a wildcard in my filter to get any match.

This works however:

"(myDeviceId:caseExactMatch:=ZZZ-07430.08.12345678)"

What gives here?

The specific attribute is defined in the schema file as follows:

attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.36200.255.0.17 NAME 'myDeviceId' DESC 'Identifies a device' SUP uid EQUALITY caseExactMatch SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 SINGLE-VALUE )

I am no expert, but this makes no sense to me? I feel I am missing something, but what?

I am using openldap on CentOS 6 and workign via command-line tools (e.g. ldapsearch). The backend is mdb if that matters.

# rpm -qa | grep openldap openldap-clients-2.4.39-8.el6.x86_64 openldap-2.4.39-8.el6.x86_64 openldap-servers-2.4.39-8.el6.x86_64

Thanks for any ideas/suggestions.

Best, GH