User search in LDAP does not support Wildcards

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As some support issues already stated, the use of wildcards when searching users, using the search plugin is not working properly.

Trying to find a user “abc” using query ‘a’ works, but when using ‘a*’ nothing is found. Also ‘b’ or ‘*c’ does not work.

This is probably related to this change OF-779: fetching from LDAP should escape results. All search criteria are escaped, also the wildcard characters.

I Updated the code to refine the solution of OF-779 to enable the use of wildcards again.

GitHub - annovanvliet/Openfire at SearchWildcardFix

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Thanks for contributing! feel free to make a PR request. The ldap code could use some clean up. I took a stab at it, but it was outside my skill set. perhaps if you have time, you could check it out?

[OF-145] Do LDAP bind instead of search when subtree searching disabled - IgniteRealtime JIRA

and many more!

Issue Navigator - IgniteRealtime JIRA

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I see that Daryl filed this as [OF-1226] Enable use of wildcard when searching users in LDAP - IgniteRealtime JIRA

Btw, OF-779 was applied to 3.9.3 and another user reported 3.9.3 worked fine for them.

You should submit a PR to the main repo of Openfire.