1 .TH LDAPSEARCH 1 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 ldapsearch \- LDAP search tool
28 .BI \-S \ attribute\fR]
30 .BI \-d \ debuglevel\fR]
42 .BI \-y \ passwdfile\fR]
46 .BI \-h \ ldaphost\fR]
48 .BI \-p \ ldapport\fR]
50 .BI \-b \ searchbase\fR]
52 .BI \-s \ base\fR\||\|\fIone\fR\||\|\fIsub\fR\||\|\fIchildren\fR]
54 .BI \-a \ never\fR\||\|\fIalways\fR\||\|\fIsearch\fR\||\|\fIfind\fR]
56 .BI \-P \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3\fR]
58 .BR \-e \ [!]ext[=extparam]]
60 .BR \-E \ [!]ext[=extparam]]
62 .BI \-l \ timelimit\fR]
64 .BI \-z \ sizelimit\fR]
66 .BR \-O \ security-properties ]
86 is a shell-accessible interface to the
87 .BR ldap_search_ext (3)
91 opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and performs a search
92 using specified parameters. The \fIfilter\fP should conform to
93 the string representation for search filters as defined in RFC 4515.
94 If not provided, the default filter, (objectClass=*), is used.
98 finds one or more entries, the attributes specified by
99 \fIattrs\fP are returned. If * is listed, all user attributes are
100 returned. If + is listed, all operational attributes are returned.
101 If no \fIattrs\fP are listed, all user attributes are returned. If only
102 1.1 is listed, no attributes will be returned.
106 Show what would be done, but don't actually perform the search. Useful for
107 debugging in conjunction with -v.
110 Include the User Friendly Name form of the Distinguished Name (DN)
114 Run in verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.
117 A single -t writes retrieved non-printable values to a set of temporary
118 files. This is useful for dealing with values containing non-character
119 data such as jpegPhoto or audio. A second -t writes all retrieved values to
123 Write temporary files to directory specified by \fIpath\fP (default:
127 URL prefix for temporary files. Default is file://\fIpath\fP/ where
128 \fIpath\fP is /var/tmp/ or specified with -T.
131 Retrieve attributes only (no values). This is useful when you just want to
132 see if an attribute is present in an entry and are not interested in the
136 Search results are display in LDAP Data Interchange Format detailed in
138 A single -L restricts the output to LDIFv1.
139 A second -L disables comments.
140 A third -L disables printing of the LDIF version.
141 The default is to use an extended version of LDIF.
144 Enable manage DSA IT control.
146 makes control critical.
149 Sort the entries returned based on \fIattribute\fP. The default is not
150 to sort entries returned. If \fIattribute\fP is a zero-length string (""),
151 the entries are sorted by the components of their Distinguished Name. See
153 for more details. Note that
155 normally prints out entries as it receives them. The use of the
157 option defeats this behavior, causing all entries to be retrieved,
158 then sorted, then printed.
161 Set the LDAP debugging level to \fIdebuglevel\fP.
163 must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.
166 Read a series of lines from \fIfile\fP, performing one LDAP search for
167 each line. In this case, the \fIfilter\fP given on the command line
168 is treated as a pattern where the first and only occurrence of \fB%s\fP
169 is replaced with a line from \fIfile\fP. Any other occurence of the
170 the \fB%\fP character in the pattern will be regarded as an error.
171 Where it is desired that the search filter include a \fB%\fP character,
172 the character should be encoded as \fB\\25\fP (see RFC 4515).
173 If \fIfile\fP is a single
174 \fI-\fP character, then the lines are read from standard input.
177 Use simple authentication instead of SASL.
180 Use the Distinguished Name \fIbinddn\fP to bind to the LDAP directory.
183 Prompt for simple authentication.
184 This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.
187 Use \fIpasswd\fP as the password for simple authentication.
190 Use complete contents of \fIpasswdfile\fP as the password for
191 simple authentication.
194 Specify URI(s) referring to the ldap server(s); only the protocol/host/port
195 fields are allowed; a list of URI, separated by whitespace or commas
199 Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
200 Deprecated in favor of -H.
203 Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.
204 Deprecated in favor of -H.
207 Use \fIsearchbase\fP as the starting point for the search instead of
210 .BI \-s \ base\fR\||\|\fIone\fR\||\|\fIsub\fR\||\|\fIchildren
211 Specify the scope of the search to be one of
217 to specify a base object, one-level, subtree, or children search.
222 scope requires LDAPv3 subordinate feature extension.
224 .BI \-a \ never\fR\||\|\fIalways\fR\||\|\fIsearch\fR\||\|\fIfind
225 Specify how aliases dereferencing is done. Should be one of
231 to specify that aliases are never dereferenced, always dereferenced,
232 dereferenced when searching, or dereferenced only when locating the
233 base object for the search. The default is to never dereference aliases.
235 .BI \-P \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3
236 Specify the LDAP protocol version to use.
238 .B \-e \fI[!]ext[=extparam]\fP
240 .B \-E \fI[!]ext[=extparam]\fP
242 Specify general extensions with -e and search extensions with -E.
243 \'!\' indicates criticality.
247 [!]assert=<filter> (an RFC 4515 Filter)
248 [!]authzid=<authzid> ("dn:<dn>" or "u:<user>")
252 [!]postread[=<attrs>] (a comma-separated attribute list)
253 [!]preread[=<attrs>] (a comma-separated attribute list)
254 abandon, cancel (SIGINT sends abandon/cancel; not really controls)
259 [!]domainScope (domain scope)
260 [!]mv=<filter> (matched values filter)
261 [!]pr=<size>[/prompt|noprompt] (paged results/prompt)
262 [!]subentries[=true|false] (subentries)
263 [!]sync=ro[/<cookie>] (LDAP Sync refreshOnly)
264 rp[/<cookie>][/<slimit>] (LDAP Sync refreshAndPersist)
268 wait at most \fItimelimit\fP seconds for a search to complete.
276 means the maximum integer allowable by the protocol.
277 A server may impose a maximal timelimit which only
278 the root user may override.
281 retrieve at most \fIsizelimit\fP entries for a search.
289 means the maximum integer allowable by the protocol.
290 A server may impose a maximal sizelimit which only
291 the root user may override.
293 .BI \-O \ security-properties
294 Specify SASL security properties.
297 Enable SASL Interactive mode. Always prompt. Default is to prompt
301 Enable SASL Quiet mode. Never prompt.
304 Specify the authentication ID for SASL bind. The form of the ID
305 depends on the actual SASL mechanism used.
308 Specify the realm of authentication ID for SASL bind. The form of the realm
309 depends on the actual SASL mechanism used.
312 Specify the requested authorization ID for SASL bind.
314 must be one of the following formats:
316 .I <distinguished name>
322 Specify the SASL mechanism to be used for authentication. If it's not
323 specified, the program will choose the best mechanism the server knows.
326 Issue StartTLS (Transport Layer Security) extended operation. If you use
328 , the command will require the operation to be successful.
330 If one or more entries are found, each entry is written to standard
331 output in LDAP Data Interchange Format or
337 # bjensen, example, net
338 dn: uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=net
340 objectClass: dcObject
347 If the -t option is used, the URI of a temporary file
348 is used in place of the actual value. If the -A option
349 is given, only the "attributename" part is written.
351 The following command:
354 ldapsearch -LLL "(sn=smith)" cn sn telephoneNumber
357 will perform a subtree search (using the default search base and
358 other parameters defined in
360 for entries with a surname (sn) of smith. The common name (cn), surname
361 (sn) and telephoneNumber values will be retrieved and printed to
363 The output might look something like this if two entries are found:
366 dn: uid=jts,dc=example,dc=com
372 telephoneNumber: 1 555 123-4567
374 dn: uid=sss,dc=example,dc=com
380 telephoneNumber: 1 555 765-4321
386 ldapsearch -LLL -u -t "(uid=xyz)" jpegPhoto audio
389 will perform a subtree search using the default search base for entries
390 with user id of "xyz". The user friendly form of the entry's DN will be
391 output after the line that contains the DN itself, and the jpegPhoto
392 and audio values will be retrieved and written to temporary files. The
393 output might look like this if one entry with one value for each of the
394 requested attributes is found:
397 dn: uid=xyz,dc=example,dc=com
398 ufn: xyz, example, com
399 audio:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-audio-a19924
400 jpegPhoto:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-jpegPhoto-a19924
406 ldapsearch -LLL -s one -b "c=US" "(o=University*)" o description
409 will perform a one-level search at the c=US level for all entries
410 whose organization name (o) begins begins with \fBUniversity\fP.
411 The organization name and description attribute values will be retrieved
412 and printed to standard output, resulting in output similar to this:
415 dn: o=University of Alaska Fairbanks,c=US
416 o: University of Alaska Fairbanks
417 description: Preparing Alaska for a brave new yesterday
418 description: leaf node only
420 dn: o=University of Colorado at Boulder,c=US
421 o: University of Colorado at Boulder
422 description: No personnel information
423 description: Institution of education and research
425 dn: o=University of Colorado at Denver,c=US
426 o: University of Colorado at Denver
430 description: Institute for Higher Learning and Research
432 dn: o=University of Florida,c=US
433 o: University of Florida
435 description: Warper of young minds
440 Exit status is zero if no errors occur.
441 Errors result in a non-zero exit status and
442 a diagnostic message being written to standard error.
451 .BR ldap_search_ext (3),
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