a plan for ADS, LDAP and ldb

[Markus Schabel]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 00:37, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> 
>>This is a rough idea of what I am currently thinking of regarding
>>LDAP, ldb and ADS in Samba4. 
> 
> 
>> - write a OpenLDAP backend that uses ldb. This fits with all the
>>   other backends OpenLDAP has, except this will be a _much_ simpler
>>   backend as ldb already uses LDAP syntax, and has indexes etc
> 
> 
>>PS: Any volunteers to write the OpenLDAP ldb backend?
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, I've looked into this one.
> It seem doable without too much pain.
> But one thing stopped me early. It seem that ldb is case sensitive on
> searches, while ldap is case insensitive.

that depends on the matchingRule used in your LDAP scheme. if it is 
caseIgnore*Match or caseExact*Match (e.g. sambaDomainName is
insensitive, labeledURI is sensitive)

> Is that fixable?
> Can we have a case insensitive ldb ?
> 
> Simo.

best regards
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