Re: search sub-set of ou's

[Bing D. <Bi...@ci...>]

We do not have 'ou' as attribute in people's entries.  It's just an
structural part of the dn.  Searching 'dc=tamu,dc=edu' definitely would
take a very long time.  Multiple searches work fine if there are not
many ou's, say two or three, to be searched.  What if there are ten or
more?  I had lived with multiple searches before I posted the question. 
Just wondering if there is any better solutions.

Thanks very much for the input.

Bing

Bing Du <bi...@ta..., 979-845-9577>
Texas A&M University, CIS, Operating Systems, Unix

>>> Jim Harle <ha...@us...> 02/02/01 02:02PM >>>
This depends on wheter or not your user objects also happen to have an
ou
attribute in addition to the structural part of the dn.  We populate
all
of our users with an ou attribute corresponding to their lowest ou, so
somebody might have "ou=Mathematic Department".  If so, you can build
that
into the filter (|(ou=dept1)(ou=dept2)).  If you don't hae such or if
you
are looking higher than is reflected, then you would need to either do
multiple searches with multiple bases or search "dc=tamu,dc=edu" and
then
do something like
  $dn = $entry-dn;
  next unless ( ($dn =~ /ou\=dept1/) or ($dn =~ /ou\=dept2) );

--Jim Harle


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Bing Du wrote:

> There are quita a few ou's under "dc=tamu,dc=edu".  How should I
specify
> the base to just search in two ou's.  For instance, what should the
> $basedn be if I just want to look up "cn=john smith" in
> 'ou=dept1,dc=tamu,dc=edu" and 'ou=dept2,dc=tamu,dc=edu"?
>
> $mesg = $ld->search(base => $basedn,scope => 'sub',filter =>
"(cn=john
> smith)",attrs => [],typesonly => 0);
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bing
>
> Bing Du <bi...@ta..., 979-845-9577>
> Texas A&M University, CIS, Operating Systems, Unix
>
>