On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 13:36 -0700, Pete Rowley wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > It seems to me that Fedora DS does not support Microsoft's extended > > match bitwise operations. > > > > I chatted with Pete about it on IRC, but thought to document it here for > > discussion. While it would be technically possible for me to filter > > these on the client side, it becomes silly fast. I need the LDAP > > backend side to handle these. > > > > This is the kind of search Fedora DS needs to accept, for Samba4 to use > > it as a backend: > > (|(&(!(groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=1))(groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2147483648)(groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=10)) > > > > > Basic question: why are you storing bit fields in the first place? Why > not store the information in a more readily accessible fashion, both to > your code, and the administrator of the system? As you noted, the > bitwise extensible matches are Microsoft extensions and they have not > been specified in any RFC or IETF draft document AFAIK. Consequently > you should not expect the functionality to be generally available in > LDAP directory servers. As we discussed on the phone, I wasn't aware this was a particularly difficult extension to implement, and was hoping I could rely on this functionality here. Having this search operator available in the server would be very useful, as it would allow these searches to proceed to the server relatively unmolested by our mapping layer. These queries come from our clients (such as Windows, expecting to talk to AD), over LDAP, as well as potentially internally to Samba4. I am concerned that filtering these values on the client side, while possible, would produce excessive network traffic. I'll be working over the next couple of days on a list of the requirements that I know Samba4 will have for it's backend server, and some speculation for areas we may encounter in future. It should appear at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/LDAP_Backend Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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