[389-users] Re: use of wildcards in ACIs

[Mark Reynolds]

On 01/24/2017 05:26 PM, Crocker, Deborah wrote:
>  We have used directory 389 for many years having migrated forward from
>  the iPlanet/Sun version. Back when we were on Sun we discovered that
>  any attribute listed in an ACI where we wanted to use a wildcard had
>  to have the attribute name in all lower case. For instance, if we
>  wanted to reference myAttribute* when we had (myAttributeName1,
>  myAttributeName2, etc) then in the ACI it had to be myattribute*. This
>  holds true up through at least 1.2.11.15 which is our current production.
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>  We are now testing 1.3.5.13, hoping to move our production forward
>  into that. We’d been having trouble with some of our processes and
>  have discovered that in the ACIs now the wildcard problem has switched
>  its case sensitivity. In the newer server we have to change all our
>  wildcard attributes to myAttribute*. I haven’t checked through all our
>  schema values to see if there will be some spec’d with all lowercase
>  (that is not our naming policy but we need to check). I also note that
>  if the attribute is spelled out completely then it doesn’t care about
>  the case at all.
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>  This seems to me to have been a bug in the old one and is a bug in the
>  new one. Has anyone come up against this and have anything to add?
>  
Sounds like a bug.  The attribute name in the ACI should be case
insensitive.  Can you please file a ticket for this issue? 

https://fedorahosted.org/389/newticket

Thanks,
Mark
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>  Deborah Crocker, PhD
>  Systems Engineer III
>  Office of Information Technology
>  The University of Alabama
>  Box 870346
>  Tuscaloosa, AL 36587
>  Office 205-348-3758 | Fax [phone]
>  deborah.crocker(a)ua.edu
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