[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#236584: please add a filtering capability to the shell-backend

[Andreas Barth]

* Ryan Tandy (ryan at nardis.ca) [140908 19:03]:
> On 07/03/04 03:27 AM, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
>> Andreas Barth wrote:
>>> please add a filtering capability to the shell-backend (like the
>>> perl-backend currently has). The attached patch does this, and I need
>>> it for the bts2ldap-Gateway.
>>
>> Have you proposed your patch to the OpenLDAP list already? If not, I'd
>> appreciate it a lot if you would. We're already having a lot of trouble
>> maintaining the GNUTLS patch and should try to get stuff like this
>> included upstream.
>
> I searched around a bit but couldn't find an upstream submission of this  
> patch, and current back-shell still lacks this feature.
>
> The patch you provided (thanks for that!) needs some updating to apply  
> to the current code. However it looks like it should be easy to fix up,  
> and I'd be happy to work on that if it helps someone. Do you still use  
> this feature anywhere?

Not now (I used that to provide the bts2ldap gateway for the list of
RC bugs before we had interfaces to the bts or even udd). However, I
will use it again soon (it's an quite easy way to get ldap connected
to some backend, and avoid that the backend needs to duplicate
something which is more easy to do in ldap).


> An explicit copyright notice or assignment to the public domain will  
> probably be needed. Would you be able to provide that? See  
> <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html>.

I'll go with this one:
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted only as authorized by the OpenLDAP Public
 License. 

(And just to be clear as this is legal stuff, this patch is derived
from the OpenLDAP-Sourcecode itself (of course, as a patch to it), and
not from any other work.)

If another assignment would be better, please just tell me.


Andi