numberSuborinates is not (at least what I have seen) used to show the number of results, but rather the count of entries within a container entry.
Often organizations need to know how many entries are present within a directory or container for audit purposes of security, legal, billing or other purposes. When you have 1,000 or even perhaps 100,000 this is a minor item as you can just do a search. When you have 25 million not so minor -- -jim Jim Willeke On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 25/02/16 14:18, Pushpalanka Jayawardhana a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > This is regarding getting the count of matching results for a LDAP > search > > we execute. > > I found this [1] posted in 2013, which says A > > pacheDs does not support numSubordinates > > . > > Is this still valid or, do we have a way to get the count of results > > without getting the whole results out? > > The response is still valid. > > Why would you do that anyway ? Is there any good reason why you may want > to know how many result you'll get ? > >
