Searching An Internationalized Directory; Matching Rule Filter Syntax - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

The following filter returns all entries that do not represent a person:
(!(objectClass=person))
The following filter returns all entries that do not represent a person and whose
common name is similar to
(&(!(objectClass=person))(cn~=printer3b))

Searching an Internationalized Directory

When you perform search operations, you can request that the directory sort the
results based on any language for which the server has a supporting collation
order. For a listing of the collation orders supported by the directory, see
"Identifying Supported Locales," on page 614.
NOTE
This section focuses on the matching rule filter portion of the
For more information on general
on page 595. For information on searching internationalized directories using the
Users and Groups portion of the Red Hat Console, refer to the online help or
Managing Servers with Red Hat Console.
This section covers the following topics:
•

Matching Rule Filter Syntax

• Supported Search Types
• International Search Examples
Matching Rule Filter Syntax
A matching rule provides special guidelines for how the directory compares
strings during a search operation. In an international search, the matching rule tells
the system what collation order and operator to use when performing the search
operation. For example, a matching rule in an international search might tell the
server to search for attribute values that come at or after llama in the Spanish
collation order. The syntax of the matching rule filter is as follows:
printer3b
When performing internationalized searches, you must perform an
LDAP v3 search; therefore, do not specify the
to .
ldapsearch
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Searching an Internationalized Directory
:
-V2
syntax, see "LDAP Search Filters,"
Appendix B
option on the call
syntax.
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