Philip Lembo wrote: > Very important point made about knowing the extended features of each > directory product. For example, Active Directory sets a hard limit on > the number of entries returned by a search. The way around this is to > use the Paged Results control extension (good feature). Problem is that > while this control is supported on AD and OpenLDAP it *is not* thus far > supported by any of the Netscape derived directory products (i.e. Sun, > Fedora/Red Hat). Another extension with uneven support is Server Side > Sort (not my favorite feature). This is available on Sun/Fedora/Red Hat > *but not* on Active Directory or OpenLDAP. You can limit the size of searches (and a few other things). I'm not a FDS developer but I remember this in the Netscape days so unless Sun has removed it, it applies to the Sun/Fedora/Red Hat servers. The documentation shows how to do it per-user. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/password.html#1085603 In a quick search of the docs I didn't see how to do it on a global basis but in the console you can do this from Configuration->Performance. rob > > The foregoing brings up another point. Although programming to the LDAP > protocol itself (apart from various vendor extensions) is pretty uniform > the configuration of each individual directory may not necessarily be. > Maximum number of results returned, restrictions on access to the root > dsn or schema dn can differ based on the administrator's preference. So > besides knowing the different directory products and what they can do, > you should also invest some time in getting to know the admins for the > directories you'll be querying and find out how they've been configured. > > Phil Lembo > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3178 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20060417/5349f4c6/attachment.bin
