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Asked: 2026-06-09T09:31:05+00:00

If I use a ServerSideSort control, the entries are sorted nicely for me, but

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If I use a ServerSideSort control, the entries are sorted nicely for me, but I can’t retrieve any operational attributes, even if I specifically request them, e.g. “entryUUID”, or “+”. If I remove the SSS control I get the operational attributes as I always did before. All I get are the ordinary attributes.

Is this a known feature of the SSS specification? or a known problem in OpenLDAP 2.4.30?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This condition, and those described in your comments, sounds like a server software defect. An LDAP compliant server should either:

    • return the entries with attribute as requested, even if unsorted (criticality false)
    • return unavailableCriticalExtension and no entries (criticality true)

    As for sorting on an operational attribute like entryUUID, several servers I tested refused to sort, but did return results (with criticality false).

    Perhaps you could export the data to an LDIF file and deal with your entries with single digit entryUUID, and re-import the data.

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