Reading groups from LDAP

[Michael Ströder]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Melita Mihaljevic wrote:
>>
>> My search filter is (it's all in one line):
>> search_filter =
>> '(|(&(objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(uniqueMember=uid=usera*))
>> (&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(member=uid=usera*))
>> (&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=usera*)))'
> 
> Why do you want to do wildcard searches? This is not guaranteed to work 
> since some of the member attributes might not even have a SUBSTR 
> matching rule assigned.

And note that user-IDs might not always be in the attribute 'uid'. It's 
perfectly valid that a user enters his e-mail address into the login 
form and you first have to search for the user's entry which might not 
have attribute 'uid' set at all.

Ciao, Michael.