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Old 10-23-2008
LDAP search query help

I would like to do an ldap search which looks for entries which do not actually have a certain attribute. Not that the attribute is Null, but where the attribute does not exist.
Is this possible using ldapsearch?
# 2  
Old 10-23-2008
hmmm,

you could do an ldapsearch -A

This would tell you whether an attribute exists within a record...perhaps this could then be dumped through grep.

probably a cleaner solution exists somewhere though
# 3  
Old 10-23-2008
got an answer - thanks to our local guru:

Code:
 ldapsearch -h ... -b ou=people,dc=...,dc=... "(&(objectClass=*)(!(yourattributehere=*)))" uid

# 4  
Old 10-23-2008
Thanks for your reply (and thanks to your guru!).

FYI

It seems openldap wanted me to put the filter in single quotes, other than that, the example worked perfectly. Smilie
 
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