Re: getting object by its DN

[Norbert Klasen <klasen@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hi,
> Is there any simple ways to get LDAP object by its DN in OpenLDAP SDK?
> 
> ldap_search() doesn't recognize filter like: dn=cn=sombody,ou=dept1,o=mycomp
> I know, that by splitting DN into cn and rest I can make search using rest of DN as base, but is that the only way?
> 
> What is the cannonical approach?

use a search with scope=base, basedn=DN and a search filter of
"objectclass=*"

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