I know there was an earlier thread about using uid attribute for sorting and that it's not supported by the Console: http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-directory-users at redhat.com/msg04439.html However, I thought I'd try following approach: 1. I deleted previous Browsing index for People by using the Console. 2. I created following VLV entries as it suggests in the Admin Guide "Managing Indexes" chapter (my database is called "ebiRoot"): dn: cn=MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk,cn=ebiRoot,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: vlvSearch cn: MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk vlvBase: ou=People,dc=ebi,dc=ac,dc=uk vlvScope: 1 vlvFilter: (|(objectclass=*)(objectclass=ldapsubentry)) dn: cn=by MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk,cn=MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk,cn=ebiRoot,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: vlvIndex cn: by MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk vlvSort: uid 3. Then I shutdown slapd and ran the vlvindex command: $ ./vlvindex -n ebiRoot -T "by MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk" [23/Mar/2007:16:47:05 +0000] - WARNING: Import is running with nsslapd-db-private-import-mem on; No other process is allowed to access the database [23/Mar/2007:16:47:05 +0000] - dblayer_instance_start: pagesize: 4096, pages: 518726, procpages: 6433 [23/Mar/2007:16:47:05 +0000] - cache autosizing: import cache: 204800k [23/Mar/2007:16:47:05 +0000] - li_import_cache_autosize: 50, import_pages: 51200, pagesize: 4096 [23/Mar/2007:16:47:06 +0000] - ebiRoot: Indexing VLV: by MCC ou=People dc=ebi dc=ac dc=uk [23/Mar/2007:16:47:06 +0000] - ebiRoot: Indexed 1000 entries (70%). [23/Mar/2007:16:47:06 +0000] - ebiRoot: Finished indexing. Looks like everything went well from the output. 4. Start slapd, start the console. When I view People, they are still sorted by cn. Why does it ignore the VLV config that created above? I also confirmed from Console that vlvsort is set to "uid". This is not a major problem, I'm just curious why the above solution doesn't work? It looks like Console doesn't care what the vlvSort value is? I don't understand how it can sort with cn when there is no index. Thanks! Ville
