[Fedora-directory-users] Case Sensitive Lookup and Searching

[Michael Ströder]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> Michael Ströder wrote:
>>>> I really wonder whether default matching rules are applied for 
>>>> certain LDAP syntaxes and how to find out which these are.
>>>>
>>> If there is no matching rule, it just goes by the most appropriate 
>>> internal matching rule that corresponds to the SYNTAX.
>>
>> Any description how the "most appropriate internal matching rule" is 
>> chosen?
> No, not really, afaik.  I suppose it attempts to use "common sense" e.g. 
> if the syntax is for case sensitive string, it uses a matching rule for 
> case sensitive string comparison, and uses indexers for case sensitive 
> strings.

And how to determine whether a syntax is used for case sensitive 
strings? That's exactly the problem of the original poster I guess.

>> Is the list of matching rules in the subschema subentry complete?
> Complete as in "implements every matching rule defined in every LDAP 
> RFC" - no.

Complete in the sense: The subschema subentry lists all the matching 
rules which are implemented, no more, no less.

Ciao, Michael.