I have a strange behaviour of applied filter on my program. It uses Net::LDAP to fetch object information from Microsoft Active Directory. Group and Computer objects can have "managedBy" attribute set on them, this attribute, if set, uses object distinguished name (DN) as its syntax. When i try to search all computer objects with managedBy attribute against string *Administrator*, i don't get any returned objects, altough i can verify otherwise that this user is found on managedBy attribute on several computer objects. Same thing when trying to search group objects where Administrator is found in managedBy

Note that i use wildcards, as they are supported on LDAP filters, far as i know. I'm also using user Administrator just as an example here. If i replace *Administrator* string with the complete user DN, i get the expected results, but i'm aiming to simplify things here.

Administrator DN:

CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=ad,DC=local

Applied filter:

(&(objectClass=computer)(managedBy=*Administrator*))

In reply to Net::LDAP problem with wildcard on applied filter by mellin

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