[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#583319: Bug#583319: slapd: built-in schema for uidNumber/gidNumber does not have ordering directive

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:57 AM +0100 Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.11-1+lenny1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> It is frequently useful to be able to do searches like
> (uidNumber>=10000).  This used to be possible by munging the NIS schema
> to include:
> ORDERING integerOrderingMatch
>
> on the uidNumber and gidNumber attributes.  Now that the attributes are
> built in, this is not possible.
>
> Please consider adding an ORDERING directive to the attribute
> definition.

Why don't you just modify it, using ldapmodify against the cn=config 
database?

I don't see anything here for Debian to do.  I would suggest, of course, 
using a current release, given the antiquity of 2.4.11 at this point.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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