Re: one level scope

[Kurt D. Z. <Ku...@Op...>]

At 09:40 PM 3/7/01 -0600, ma...@mj... wrote:
>Ok,
>I have a question on scope. It's been so long since I had to do a 
>one level scope search and I don't have an active LDAP server 
>handy to test it out.
>
>I thought a one level search, searches all entries under a base 
>entry, including their children but not the base entry.
>
>But now I've heard that it only searches one level, that level under 
>the base but not their children.

The latter is correct.  As the name implies, one-level (or
singleLevel) scope returns a single level of a subtree, the
level immediate subordinate to the search base.

If you want to accomplish the former, do a subtree search
and then ignore the entry matching your search base.