Re: Iterative LDAP searches

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

Maybe I don't get the whole picture of the story. 
But for retrieving all the entries, why not dump the directory in LDIF
and process LDIF instead?  See Net::LDAP::LDIF.

Bing

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

>>> David Bussenschutt <d.b...@ma...> 05/08/01
06:43PM >>>
David,
I have a server (Novell 5.1) that I can't get to return more than 500
entries, no matter what the documentation from novell says.  

I loop through 26 searches, one for each letter of the alphabet,
searching
for (cn=$x*) where $x is the letter I'm currently searching for.  I
can
guarantee that I don't have more than 500 'smith's (or whatever), so
this
works well for me. I then just tack all the results together before
fiddling with them.

If I had numerical UID's, then I could probably search for (UID=$y*)
where
$y is the number 1 through 10, and reduce the search cound
significantly.
Oh well.

David.

At 11:46 AM 5/8/01 +0300, you wrote:
>We use Net::LDAP to search for users on directory servers. We're
trying to
>figure out the best way to deal with the search limit that directory
servers
>impose on LDAP searches. For AD, this limit seems to be 1000, while
with
>Netscape it seems to default to 1000 but is configurable. If X is the
search
>limit and there are > X users, we don't get accurate results. We need
a way
>to get back all users, perhaps in smaller chunks.
>
>Someone suggested we use Paging, but that while it's supported by
Active
>Directory, the answer for other directory servers in the future will
be VLV.
>
>Can anyone suggest a good strategy for now?
>What's with VLV - when will there be a stable perl module for this?
>Which directory servers, if any, support Paging other than AD?
>Where can I finds helpful info and examples for either Paging or VLV?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>- David Cikk
>
>
>
>
>

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