Revision as of 10:01, 28 July 2013

Overview

The main search field in the upper right corner searches the whole directory and gives first results while typing (actual search starts after entering three characters). The following example shows, that after typing four letters, we have four results (each containing the first four letters “Müll”):

• Two customers “Peter Müller” and “Stefan Müller”.
• One reseller “Müller & Co GmbH”.
• One service “Online Backup 10 Gigabyte (Hausi Müller)”.

Search Selection

After the user has entered the first three characters, we do a first search selection:

• Numerical value (integer): Start a search for a uid (unique identifier)
• Alphanumerical value (non-integer): Start a search for either displayName or gecos.

Reseller Search

Numerical value (integer) Search

The following example shows you the numerical value (integer) search (uid search) with 400 (400*) as the search parameter and o (for the organisation) as the return value:

ldapsearch -H ldaps://ldapm.tombstone.ch \
  -b "ou=reseller,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org" \
  -s sub \
  -D "cn=Manager,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org" \
  -W -x -LLL \
  "(&(sstBelongsToResellerUID=4000000)(uid=400*))" o

Do not forget to restrict the search according to the person who is currently logged in.

The result(s):

dn: uid=4000000,ou=reseller,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org
o: Reseller Ltd.

Legend:

-H: ldapuri
       Specify URI(s) referring to the ldap server(s).
-b: searchbase
       Use searchbase as the starting point for the search  instead  of
       the default.
-s: base|one|sub
       Specify  the  scope of the search to be one of base, one, or sub
       to specify a base object, one-level,  or  subtree  search.   The
       default is sub.
-D: binddn
       Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory.
-W:    Prompt for simple authentication.  This is used instead of spec-
       ifying the password on the command line.
-x:    Use simple authentication instead of SASL.
-LLL:  Search  results  are  display  in  LDAP  Data Interchange Format
       detailed in ldif(5).   A  single  -L  restricts  the  output  to
       LDIFv1.   A  second  -L  disables comments.  A third -L disables
       printing of the LDIF version.  The default is to use an extended
       version of LDIF.

Alphanumerical value (non-integer) Search

The following example shows you the alphanumerical value (non-integer) search with res (res*) as the search parameter:

ldapsearch -H ldaps://ldapm.tombstone.ch \
  -b "ou=reseller,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org" \
  -s sub \
  -D "cn=Manager,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org" \
  -W -x -LLL \
  "(&(sstBelongsToResellerUID=4000000)(o=res*))" o

Do not forget to restrict the search according to the person who is currently logged in.

The result(s):

dn: uid=4000000,ou=reseller,dc=foss-cloud,dc=org
o: Reseller Ltd.

Customer Search

Person (People) Search