Patch to allow substring searches on DN¶

Description¶

This patch add the feature to search values with substring filters. It is fully compliant with OpenLDAP features including indexing.

Usage¶

ldapsearch -b "dc=foo,dc=bar" "uniqueMember=uid=foo*"

will match entries with cn including any of the following values :

• uid=foo,ou=People,dc=foo,dc=bar
• uid=foobar,ou=People,dc=foo,dc=bar
• ...

Applying this patch¶

Download the OpenLDAP 2.3 branch, download the patch and apply it :

patch -p0 < fix-substring-search-for-dn.patch