On 5/25/07, Anderson, Cary <Cary_Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to get a handle on using the alias attribute for OU's to set up something like this: ou=posixacct, ou=account, dc=calpers, dc=ca, dc=gov And have the following ou be an alias to the one I have above ou=people, dc=calpers, dc=ca, dc=gov I thought that if I included ou=posixacct, ou=account, dc=calpers, dc=ca, dc=gov in the alias attribute of the ou=people this would be correct. However I don't seem to be able to find any users when I do an ldapsearch of the ou people. Am I not setting up my ldapsearch correctly? ldapsearch -x "(&(ou=people)(uid=*))" I actually think I may not be using the correct syntax for ldapsearch because a search using ldapsearch -x "(&(ou=posixacct)(uid=*)" also does not return any of my uid's, the most basic ldapsearch does work, ldapsearch -x uid=*, but that is searching the entire tree... I could use some assistance in if I setup the alias correctly and what may be wrong with how I am using ldapsearch.
Both your searches are semantically wrong. They are looking for objects that have attributes ou=something and uid="anything". What you want to achieve I guess is to look for objects that are under ou=people branch. You can do that by using extensible matching: (ou:dn:=people) or (ou:dn:=posixacct). The other (simple) way of doing this is to set the search base: ldapsearch -x -b "ou=account, dc=calpers, dc=ca, dc=gov" "(uid=*)"
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