Re: comparison does not work

[Kjetil T. H. <kje...@li...>]

Bing Du <du...@mo...> writes:

> The schema says:
> 
> attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.4391.0.303 NAME 'majorSuppress'
>         SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.7 )
> 
> Comparing with other attribute definitions, I noticed that this one
> did not have 'EQUALITY' or 'SUBSTR' or ... as specificed in others.
> Wondering if this was the cause of the problem that comparison did
> not work.

I believe it depends on the LDAP server you're using, that is, what is
the default matching rule?  OpenLDAP supports booleanMatch, but that
matching is not part of RFC 2252.  as a workaround, caseExactIA5Match
should work just as well.  I'm not an expert, though. :-)


Kjetil T.