Fedora-DS alias dereference problem.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:57 -0700, Sergey Kamshilin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to report it as a bug because I could not find any help on
> forms neither in other sources...
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It appears that Fedora-DS 1.1.0-3 does not dereference aliases even if
> it asked for. So I have a simple example:
> 
> ============
> # ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "ou=Special Users,dc=lab,dc=convedia,dc=com" -a
> always
> 
> dn: ou=Special Users,dc=lab, dc=convedia, dc=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: organizationalUnit
> ou: Special Users
> description: Special Administrative Accounts
> 
> dn: aliasedobjectname=ou\=DNS\,dc\=lab\,dc\=convedia\,dc\=com,ou=Special
> Users
>  ,dc=lab,dc=convedia,dc=com
> aliasedObjectName: ou=DNS,dc=lab,dc=convedia,dc=com
> objectClass: alias
> objectClass: top
> ===============
> 
> Instead of "dn: aliasedobjectname=..." I would expect to see a DNS
> subtree (DNS object).
> Couple lines may be wrapped but the idea is that parameter -a always is
> ignored. Is it a known issue? Is there any workarounds? 
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Craig