[389-users] Re: how to apply increased search limits to a group of accounts?

On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM Bob Green <wood.green.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM Mark Reynolds <mareynol@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Bob,
> >
> > What you want is probably pointer COS:
> >
> > https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_directory_server/11/html-single/administration_guide/index#About_CoS-How_a_Pointer_CoS_Works
> >
> > The issue with this is it works for all entries under a subtree. There
> > is no filtering. So you can apply it to all users under
> > ou=people,dc=example,dc=com by creating the COS definition entry
> > directly under that branch.
> >
> > Not sure if this will work for you, but it's all we got at the moment.
>
> Thank you. I managed to get this to work once I realized that the
> nsSizeLimit and nsLookThroughLimit cosAttribute entries had to include
> operational in the cosPointerDefinition:
>
> cosAttribute: nsSizeLimit operational
> cosAttribute: nsLookThroughLimit operational
>
> I am now running into "Time limit exceeded (3)" when running a query
> that takes over 30 seconds. I was hoping adding nstimelimit: -1 to
> the COS template would overcome this limitation, but I have yet to get
> it to work. I've tried adjusting a variety of cn=config limit and
> time(out) attributes but to no avail. Can anyone please point me to
> whatever attribute needs adjusting?

After rebuilding my instance I no longer see the time limit exceeded
warning. I believe the attribute to overcome the limit is indeed
nstimelimit, and can only account for it not working previously
possibly due to a configuration change I failed to keep track of. I
apologize to the list for the spam, and wish all a happy new year.

Bob
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