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Re: Problems with aliases and searches

Colin Robbins <c.robbins@xtel.co.uk> Thu, 19 March 1992 16:00 UTC

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From: Colin Robbins <c.robbins@xtel.co.uk>
Message-ID: <"13518 Thu Mar 19 15:47:12 1992"@xtel.co.uk>
To: Steve Hardcastle-Kille <S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, g.lunt@xtel.co.uk, p.hennessy@xtel.co.uk
In-Reply-To: <1038.701019397@UK.AC.UCL.CS>
Subject: Re: Problems with aliases and searches

   >I suggest that before you delete an object, if you do not know
   >definitively that it is a DN (as distinct from an alias), you 
   >should do a read fo the object class, prohibiting alias dereference.
   >This will unambiguously show if the entry is an alias or not.  If the user
   >says "delete", the UA should make this check first. 

No, the search operation return the entry DN, not the alias DN, so you
have no way of telling the entry is an alias.

Colin

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