Re: [Exim] LDAP feature request

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Dla: Brian Candler
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Temat: Re: [Exim] LDAP feature request
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Brian Candler wrote:

> I have a small feature request for LDAP. I've not implemented it myself
> since there are some alternatives and people may have some ideas how it
> should look.


If/when you are going to work on the LDAP lookup, please mail me first
for the latest source. I've been doing some work on it to get LDAPI to
work.

> One possibility might be to allow a pseudo-attribute "dn" in LDAP searches:
>      ldap:///basedn?dn,otherattr?sub?(filter)
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> which would return "dn=xxx" as part of the result. That syntax could also
> superceded 'ldapdn' by just specifying dn by itself.


Would that require a lot more parsing of the query in the Exim code?

Philip

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