Re: ldapsearch query.

[Tony Earnshaw <tonye@billy.demon.nl>]

Sridhar Bandi wrote:

>     Thank you so much for the reply.

:)


>     The task can be achieved in a two step process by searching for the
> entries that has the ou=local in the first step and then search those
> resultant entries as base(-b) for the next search with filter as
> "objectclass=*", but I want to make it in a single search. so please let
> me know if is this possible.
>
> Please go through the attached file that contains the example(may be clear
> this time). I have to retrieve the entries :
> "ou=local, ou=payroll,  o=org.co"
> "cn=John, ou=local, ou=payroll,  o=org.co"
> "ou=local, ou=finance,  o=org.co"
> " cn=Tom, ou=local, ou=finance,  o=org.co"
> in a single search.

If you have "cn=John,ou=local,ou=payroll,o=org.co", you can't include 
"finance" in a search base, only "ou=local,ou=payroll,o=org.co". The 
following *won't* work (would be nice if it did :)

ldapsearch -x -b "o=org.co" "(&(ou=local)(cn=Tom))"

But if you want both Tom in finance and John in payroll, simply begin 
the search higher and use a finer filter:

ldapsearch -x -b "o=org.co" "(|(cn=Tom)(cn=John))"

This presumes that both John and Tom are unique in the organization.

What you can also do, is to wrap ldapsearch in a simple custom shell (or
other other programming language) script that repeatedly calls
ldapsearch with different parameters. By using 'echo -n' and 'read' and
using variables in a shell script, you can even make your search
interactive.

--Tonni

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