Re: Problem using ldap_search_s to get attributeTypes

[Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:56:16PM +0100, White, Jonathan wrote:
>  
> For the program I am writing I need to return a list of all the attributes
> in a directory.

I don't think there is an easy way to list all the attributes actually
*present* but you can certainly get hold of all those *known* in the
schema.

> The two ldap_search_s calls I am making to get the attributeTypes are:
> 1) Get the subschemaSubentry for the root DSE - scope=base, basedn="",
> filter="objectClass=*"
> 2) Get the list of attributeTypes - scope=base, basedn=<result of search 1>,
> filter="objectclass=subschema"
>  
> Using Ldp I get the desired results, however using OpenLDAP I always get
> return code 32 (No such Object), and my question is why, what am I doing
> wrong?

Try this:

ldapsearch -H ldap://cat.ourshack.com/ -s base -x subschemaSubentry

That will return something like:

	subschemaSubentry: cn=Subschema

(subschemaSubentry is an operational attribute so you have to request
it explicitly)

So next you do:

ldapsearch -H ldap://<your ldap server>/ -s base -x -b 'cn=Subschema' \
	objectclass=subschema attributeTypes

Another useful query is:

ldapsearch -H ldap://<your ldap server>/ -s base -x 'objectclass=*' \
	namingcontexts

And if you want *all* of the operational attributes:

ldapsearch -H ldap://cat.ourshack.com/ -s base -x subschemaSubentry

Andrew
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