RE: Search for a DN

[Behruz R. <beh...@cp...>]

You should know than a DN is never stored whthin a Directory, therefore,
there is no way to do a search based on the DN. But as you know the RDN
of your DN, you can do a search on this. Let's say if your DN is 

		DN: uid=jsmith,ou-people,dc-acme,dc=com

You can used a filter based on the RDN (uid) and also combine it with a
object class if you know the type of the object. For instance

		(&(uid=jsmith)(objectclass=inetOrgPerson))

I hope that can help.
Behruz


-----Original Message-----
From: per...@li...
[mailto:per...@li...] On Behalf Of Jim
Harle
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 8:52 AM
To: ra...@gm...
Cc: per...@li...
Subject: Re: Search for a DN

Raffaele,
  To just read a specific DN, do :

  $ldap->search(base=>$dnIwant, scope=>'base', filter=>'objectClass=*');

--Jim Harle

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 ra...@gm... wrote:

> Hi
>
> A part of a script i made should search for the value of an Attribute
in an
> Entry and when the
> attribute does not exist or is empty it should search for the same one
level
> below.
>
> So far no problems... but to get the Entry wich is one level below the
> starting entry i need to
> search fot a DN:
>
> original Entry eg:
>
> cn=item,cn=group,dc=host,dc=com		=> Here i cant find the
value i need so...
>
> i search one level below:
>
> cn=group,dc=host,dc=com
>
> So i need to search for "cn=group,dc=host,dc=com". I recognized that i
could
> not use a DN in a filer
> argument ( "(dn=cn=group,dc=host,dc=com)" ) does not return any
results.
>
> So how can i search for an DN or better: How can i get an Entry on
wich i
> know the DN?
>
> cheers,
> Raffaele
>
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