[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and PagedResultsControl

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Mon Mar 2 11:48:04 UTC 2009


Graham Leggett wrote:
> 
> Normal users on the directory are subject to an administrative limit as
> to the size of the result sets returned, which in our case has defaulted
> to 50.
> 
> I have to periodically query the directory and have all results
> returned, in order to perform an operation on all users periodically.
> 
> As I understand it, I can achieve this using the PagedResultsControl (in
> Java), which returns results in small chunks rather than one big blob

Note that the PagedResultsControl does not circumvent administrative
limits on all LDAP server implementations. It does on MS Active
Directory. But I consider this to be a security flaw.

Ciao, Michael.




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